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by    W.    R.    Jillson 


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THE  OIL  AND  GAS 
RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

A  Geological  Review  of  the  Past   Development  and  the 

Present  Status  of  the  Industry  in  Each  of  the 

One  Hundred  and  Twenty  Counties 

in  the  Commonwealth 


BY 

WILLARD  ROUSE  JILLSON 
Kentucky  State  Geologist 


Illustrated  with  Photographs 
Maps   and  Diagrams 


THE  STATE  JOURNAL  COMPANY 

Printer  to  the  Commonwealth 

Frankfort,    Ky. 


is, 

K  1 


INTRODUCTION 


The  Oil  and  Gas  Resources  of  Kentucky  will  prove 
a  real  contribution  to  the  scientific  literature  relating  to 


ERRATA. 

Page 

The  second  "s"  in  the  word,  "State"  in  line  "State  Geologist," 

on  title  page,  should  be  an  "e." 
2     Under  plate:   for  "Jesse"  read — Yesse. 

54  Under  plate:   for  Onandaga  read — Onondaga. 

55  Line  18:   for  "accurate  y"  read— accurately. 
55     Line  30:   for  "Back"  read — Black. 

85     Line     3:   for  "Whitley"  read— McCreary. 

85  Line  25:   for  "Whitley"  read — McCreary. 

86  In   table:   for   "Chester   and    Mauch    Chunk"   read — "Chester   or 

Mauch  Chunk." 

87  Line  16:   for  "Whitley"  read — McCreary. 
90     Line  11:   for  "Green"  read — Greenup. 

92  Subheading:    for  "Cretacious"  read— Cretaceous. 

93  In  table:   for    "Chester    and    Mauch    Chunk"    read — Chester    or 

Mauch  Chunk. 
114     Under  plate:    for  "Temple  Hill  Anticline,  Barren  Co.,  Ky.,"  etc. 

read — Kentucky's   Largest   Flush   Production   Well   No.   8,  Jake 

Molder  Lease,  Warren  Co.,  Ky. 
119     Under  plate:   for  "Pipp"  read — Dipp. 

128     Under  "Clay — No.  26":  for  "Physmiography"  read — Physiography. 
153     Line  10:   for  "Oil  pool"  read — Gas  pool. 


University  of  Kentucky, 
August  14,  1919.  Lexington,  Ky. 


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INTRODUCTION 


The  Oil  and  Gas  Resources  of  Kentucky  will  prove 
a  real  contribution  to  the  scientific  literature  relating  to 
Kentucky.  Professor  W.  R.  Jillson  was  particularly 
well  equipped  for  preparing  this  work.  He  came  to  Ken- 
tucky to  do  consulting  geological  work  from  Tulsa,  Okla- 
homa, the  Mid-Continent  Oil  Field.  He  was  for  a  year 
an  active  element  in  the  Department  of  Geology  at  the 
University  of  Kentucky. 

Professor  Jillson  has  done  a  very  great  deal  of  con- 
sulting work  in  oil  and  gas  and  has  investigated  every 
field  of  importance  in  the  State.  As  a  consequence  he 
lias  become  familiar  with  the  possibilities  of  oil  and  gas 
wealth  in  Kentucky  from  a  practical  as  well  as  a  geolog- 
ical standpoint. 

He  is  a  man  of  unlimited  energy.  In  the  production 
of  this  book  he  has,  in  my  opinion,  not  only  given  freely 
of  his  own  geologic  knowledge  concerning  the  oil  and 
gas  resources  of  this  State,  but  he  has  collaborated  and 
expanded  other  information  of  the  most  valuable  char- 
acter, rendering  it  useful  at  this  important  period  of 
Kentucky  development. 

F.  PAUL  ANDERSON, 

Dean,  College  of  Engineering, 
University  of  Kentucky, 
August  14,  1919.  Lexington,  Ky. 


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PKEFACE 


For  over  a  century  Kentucky  has  been  a  producer 
of  Petroleum  and  Natural  Gas.  Since  1890,  this  State 
has  been  an  important  producer  of  these  present  day 
living  necessities.  However  it  was  not  until  about  1903r 
when  the  Cannel  City  pool  of  Wolfe  County  was  opened 
up  with  gusher  production  from  a  few  important  wells,, 
that  the  eyes  of  the  oil  producing  world  turned  earnest- 
ly towards  this  State. 

Succeeding  development  produced  nothing  startling 
in  the  way  of  large  steady  production  until  1916,  when 
the  extension  of  the  Irvine  pool  was  proven.  In  1917, 
the  opening  of  the  Ashley  pool,  and  in  1918,  the  drilling 
of  the  Big  Sinking  pool,  with  its  tremendous  produc- 
tion placed  Kentucky  in  the  list  as  one  more  of  the  im- 
portant states  in  the  Appalachian  Oil  and  Gas  Field.  Al- 
though surpassed  in  total  value  of  oil  and  gas  production 
by  West  Virginia  and  Pennsylvania,  the  new  Kentucky 
fields  have  nevertheless  attracted  nation  wide  attention ; 
tens  of  thousands  of  wells  have  been  drilled  in  the  eastern 
and  southern  sections  of  the  State;  and  the  position  of 
Kentucky  as  an  important  oil  and  gas  producer  has  be- 
come thoroughly  established. 

During  the  period  of  the  development  of  the  oil  and 
gas  resources  of  the  State  of  Kentucky,  the  various 
Geological  surveys  of  this  State,  have  contributed  many 
important  investigations  and  reports.  Of  these,  two  re- 
ports are  of  outstanding  importance  both  of  which  have 
been  exhausted  in  edition.  These  are  Edward  Orton, 
Sr.,  "Petroleum,  Natural  Gas,  and  Asphalt  Eock  in 
Southern  Kentucky— 1891,"  and  J.  B.  Hoeing,  "Oil  and 
Gas  Sands  of  Kentucky — 1905."  Altogether  about  one 
hundred  and  fifteen  articles  or  separate  papers  have 
been  written  at  various  times,  either  specially  on  or  with 
reference  to  the  oil  and  gas  in  this  State.  The  most 
of  these  have  bee1!  prepared  within  the  last  score  of 
years.  Taken  collectively  they  have  been  of  enormous 
benefit  to  the  oil  and  gas  operators,  working  in  this 
State. 


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The  office  of  geological  investigation  in  any  state 
is  to  secure  the  scientific  and  practical  information  re- 
specting the  state's  resources.  Such  information  must 
be  largely  general,  rather  than  specific  in  order  to  be 
applicable.  No  state  report  can  ever  be  expected  to  cover 
the  details  of  particular  properties,  and  in  fact,  such 
is  not  the  intention  in  preparing  any  government  report. 
The  material  in  a  state  report  must  only  be  considered 
as  a  guide,  to  any  particular  locality.  Accurate  and  de- 
tailed information  on  any  property  must  necessarily  be 
compiled  by  some  geologist  who  has  been  on  the  prop- 
erty in  question.  Such  a  man  will  be  familiar,  through 
personal  experience,  with  the  conditions  there  present. 
The  value  of  any  report,  large  or  small,  will  always  be 
determined  by  the  measure  in  which  it  serves,  as  a1 
guide  to  the  development  over  the  broad  section,  which 
its  subject  matter  covers. 

During  the  past  three  years  oil  production  in  Ken- 
tucky has  increased  by  leaps  and  bounds.  From  the  total 
State  production  of  752,635  barrels  in  1916,  Kentucky 
has  risen  to  what  is  now  estimated,  will  be,  seven  million 
five  hundred  thousand  (7,5000,000)  barrels  of  crude  oil 
in  1919.  This  rapid  expansion  has  brought  into  this 
State,  thousands  of  operators  and  drillers.  The  material 
wealth  of  the  State  has  been  increased  very  greatly,  the 
estimated  total  value  of  the  oil  and  gas  production  for 
the  present  year  being  in  itself  about  twenty-two  mil- 
lion of  dollars  ($22,000,000).  New  capital  in  the  form 
of  developmental  money  has  also  come  into  the  State,  and 
it  is  noteworthy  that  those  sections  of  Kentucky  which  are 
now  producing  the  most  oil,  have  been  raised  in  standard 
from  those  of  comparative  poverty  and  poor  living,  to 
ones  of  comparative  luxury.  Within  the  last  few 
months  the  discovery  of  new  extensive  deposits  of  oil 
and  gas  has  been  made  at  points  far  from  the  limits  of 
producing  territory,  and  it  is  entirely  possible,  if  not 
probable,  that  before  another  year  rolls  around  still 
other  deposits  of  comparative  value  will  be  found,  in 
other  sections  of  the  State. 

In  the  face  of  a  very  widespread  demand  in  this 
and  other  states  for  reliable  and  scientific  information, 
concerning!  the  oil  and  gas  geology,  and  the  oil  and 


OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY  xi 

gas  prospects  in  all  parts  of  Kentucky,  sufficient  time 
was  not  allowed  for  the  preparation  of  a  carefully  com- 
piled and  detailed  report.  The  very  limited  resources  in 
the  way  of  appropriations  given  this  Department,  have 
precluded  many  important  field  examinations.  Much  of 
the  material  herewith  produced  has  been  taken  from 
the  private  consulting  geological  reports  of  the  author. 
Data  has  also  been  freely  drawn  from  many  valuable 
published  reports.  It  may  be  said  that  the  present  re- 
port is  offered  to  the  public  by  the  Department  of  Geo- 
logy and  Forestry,  at  a  time  when  it  is  very  greatly 
needed.  Because  of  the  peculiar  circumstances  attend- 
ing, it  may  be  further  stated,  that  this  bulletin  has  been 
prepared  without  any  special  appropriation  or  expense 
to  the  State,  as  the  principal  work  has  been  done  by  the 
writer,  during  his  term  of  office,  in  addition  to  his  reg- 
ular work. 

In  preparing  this  report,  the  author  has  endeavored 
to  harmonize  popular  and  scientific  news.  The  in- 
formation which  is  demanded  must  necessarily  be  of  a 
scientific  nature,  yet  not  too  scientific;  it  must  be  of  an  ac- 
curate nature  in  some  detail,  and  yet  it  must  be  under- 
standable by  those  that  have  not  been  trained  in  the 
science  of  geology.  It  has  been  somewhat  difficult  to 
bring  together  these  two  view  points,  and  it  must  re- 
main for  the  reader  to  determine  in  what  measure  the 
effort  has  been  a  success.  Most  every  one  is  interested 
in  knowing  some  thing  about  the  occurrence  of  oil  and 
gas  in  nature.  It  has  been  the  author's  special  deter- 
mination to  make  the  text  specific  enough  for  all  who  read 
this  bulletin  to  grasp  the  outstanding  facts  concerning 
this  illusive  and  incompletely  solved  problem. 


State  Geologist  of  Kentucky. 
August  1,  1919. 
Frankfort,  Kentucky. 


TABLE  OF  CONTENTS 


Page 
Introduction vii 

Preface viii 

Table  of  Contents xii 

Illustrations  xiii 

Chapter 

I.  The  Re-born  Oil  Fields  of  Kentucky 1 

Kentucky,  An  Oil  State  One    Hundred    Years    Ago— De- 
velopment Since  1900 — The  Present  Period. 

II.  Data  of  Kentucky  Oil  &  Gas  Production 18 

Production  of  Petroleum  1883  to  1919 — Production  of  Eas- 
tern Kentucky  Petroleum  Fields,  1913  to  1919 — Tank  Car 
Production  Allen  County  Crude,  1915  to  1919 — Crude  Oil 
Production,  Estill-Lee-Powell  District — Pipe  Line  Runs  of 
Allen  County  Crude,  1918  to  1919 — Summary  Figures  of 
Production — Value   of   Petroleum,    1904   to    1919 — Baume 
Density     of     Kentucky     Crude      Petroleum — Distillation 
Records   Kentucky  Crude  Oil — Kentucky  Natural   Gas — 
Central  Kentucky  Natural  Gas  Pipe  Line — Value  of  Nat- 
ural  Gas  Production,   1889   to   1919 — Gas  Analysis — Geo- 
graphic Location  of  Kentucky  Natural  Gas — Evaluation 

of  Gas  Structures  in  Eastern  Kentucky. 

III.  Origin  of  Petroleum  and  Natural  Gas 44 

General  Discussion — The  Inorganic  Theory — The  Organic 
Theory — Movement  of  Oil  Through  Rocks  and  Conditions 
of  Accumulation. 

IV.  The  Commercial  Production  of  Oil  and  Gas 56 

The  Business  of  Oil  and  Gas  Production — Management 

of  Properties — Amount  of  Production  and  Decline  of 
Wells— Marketing  Kentucky  Oil  and  Gas. 

V.  Stratigraphy  and  Evaluation  of  Kentucky  Oil  Gas  Sands..     65 
The  Ordivician  System:    The     Calciferous     Group,     The 
Trenton,   The   Cincinnatian.    The   Silurian   System:    The 
Clinton  Formation,  The  Niagaran.  The  Devonian  System: 

The  Onondaga  (Corniferous)  Limestone,  The  Black 
Shale.  The  Mississippian  System:  The  Waverly  Series, 
The  St.  Genevieve,  St.  Louis  Limestone,  The  Chester  (or 
Mauch  Chunk)  Group.  The  Pennsylvanian  System:  The 
Pottsville  Conglomerates,  The  Cretaceous  and  Quaternary 
Systems,  Geological  Sequence  of  Oil  and  Gas  Sands  of 
Kentucky. 


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Chapter  Page 

VI.  The  Geology  of  the  Oil  and  Gas  Pools  of  Kentucky 96 

Major  Structural  Features — Detailed  Discussion  of  Sepa- 
rate Oil  and  Gas  Pools. 

VII.  Geographic  Distribution  of  Oil  and  Gas  in  Kentucky 115 

General   Divisions   of  the   State — Discussion   of   Oil   and 
Gas  in  Kentucky  by  Counties. 

VIII.  Records   of  Drilled   Wells 178 

IX.  Precise  Level  Net — Adjustment  and  Standard  Elevations 

in  Kentucky 545 

X.  Elevations  Above  Sea  of  Points  in  Kentucky 559 

XI.  Revised  Bibliography    of     Petroleum,    Natural     Gas,   As- 

phalt and  Oil  Shale  in  Kentucky 586 

Appendix  596 

Glossary  of  Oil  and  Gas  Terms,  etc 612 

Index 625 

ILLUSTRATIONS. 

(Plates  Not  Otherwise   Designated  Are   Photographs). 
Plate  Page 

1.  Frontispiece 2 

2.  Jesse  Oliver  Lease  in  Allen  County 2 

3.  Shallow  Drilling  in  Ross  Creek,  Estill  County 3 

4.  Ohio  County  Oil  Properties 4 

5.  Ross  Creek  Development 6 

6.  Hauling  a  Rig  in  the  Big  Sandy  Valley 8 

7.  Field  Activity  on  Ross  Creek,  Estill  County 9 

8.  Covered  Storage,  Angle  McReynolds'  Lease 11 

9.  Where  Tombstones  and  Oil  Wells  Compete 12 

10.  Three  Oily  Sisters 13 

11.  Signs  of  the  Times  in  Warren  County 14 

12.  Buck  Creek  Oil  Pool,  Lincoln  County,  Ky 15 

13.  Allen  County  Crude  Oil  Going  Into  Storage 16 

14.  Largest  and  Most  Modern  Kentucky  Oil  Refinery 17 

15.  South  Fork  Station 18 

16.  Cumberland   Pipe   Line   Production   Curves   by   Months   for 
Eastern  and   Southeastern   Kentucky    (diagram) 21 

17.  Crude  Oil  Production  of  the  Estill-Powell  District  (diagram)  25 

18.  An  Oil  Pipe  Line  Competitor 27 

19.  Automatic  Refinery  Stokers 33- 

20.  Natural  Gas  Compression  Station  at  Kermit,  W.  Va 39 

21.  Diagrams  Illustrating  Theoretical  Porosity    (diagram) 49 

22.  Diagramatic  Section  of  a  Terrace  Structure  (diagram) 50 

23.  Diagrams  Illustrating  Actual  Porosity  (diagram) .  51 


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24.  Diagramatic  Section  of  Dome  or  Anticlinal  Structure  (dia- 
gram)         52 

25.  Diagramatic  Section  of  a  Synclinal  Structure  (diagram) 53 

26.  Diagramatic  Section  in  Eastern  Kentucky  (diagram) 54 

27.  Geological  Structural  Map — Productive  Anticline  and  Non- 
productive Syncline  (diagram) 56 

28.  A  Prospecting  Drilling 57 

29.  Geologic  Structural  Map — A  Closed  Anticline  or  Dome  (dia- 
gram)         58 

30.  Geologic  Structural  Map — A  Terrace   (diagram) 60 

31.  Portable  Oil  Drilling  Rig 61 

32.  Development  on  Ross  Creek 63 

33.  Kentucky  River  Trenton  Limestones 67 

34.  Old  Lagrange  Gas  Well  70 

35.  Exposure  of  Allen-Barren  "Oil   Sands"  74 

36.  Where  the  "Corniferous"  Pinches  Down 76 

37.  The  Devonian  Limestone  and  Shale 78 

38.  An  Anticline  but  not  an  Oil  Structure  79 

39.  Cross  Bedding  and  not  Oil  Structure 82 

40.  Cliff  of  the  Pottsville  Conglomerate  88 

41.  The  Cliff  Forming  Pottsville  90 

42.  Tilted  Basal  Pottsville  (Lee)  Conglomerate  at  Crest  of  Pine 
Mountain   91 

43.  Crest  of  Pine  Mountain  Anticline  96 

44.  Sketch  Map  Showing  Areal  Geology  of  Kentucky  (map) 98 

45.  Sections  Showing  Structural  Geology  of  Kentucky  (diagram)     99 

46.  Vertical  Sandstone  and  Shale,  Pine  Mountain  Fault 100 

47.  Sketch  Map  Showing  Structural  Geology  of  Kentucky  (map)   101 

48.  Relation  of  Oil  and  Gas  Production  to  Geological  Structure  in 
Eastern  Kentucky    (map)    103 

49.  Hartford  Oil  Pool  Storage  104 

50.  Part  of  Hartford  Oil  Pool  „ 105 

51.  Oil  Storage  on  W.  M.  Foster  Lease 106 

52.  A  Barren  County  Well  Flowing  Naturally  107 

53.  The  Most  Celebrated  Kentucky  Oil  Field   (map) 110 

54.  Oil  Fields  of  Lawrence  County,  Kentucky  (map) 112 

55.  Temple  Hill  Anticline,  Barren  County,  Kentucky 114 

56.  Sketch  Map,  Allen  and  Adjoining  Counties  (map) 117 

57.  South    Dipping   Beds 119 

58.  Tilted  Waverly  Shales,  Pineville,  Kentucky  120 

59.  Northwestern  Kentucky  Oil  and  Gas  Fields  (map) 123 

60.  Pipe  Line  Station,  Estill  County,  Kentucky 132 

61.  Oil  and  Gas  Pools  of  Eastern  Kentucky  (map)   134 

62.  The  Beaver  Creek  Oil  Field  134 

63.  The  Jackson  Purchase  Region  of  Kentucky  (map) 136 

64.  "Major  Sand"  of  Grayson  County  138 


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Plate 

65.  A  Blue  Grass  Drilling  

66.  Oil  and  Gas  of  Southeastern  Kentucky  (map)  146 

67.  Characteristic  View  in  Big  Sinking  -  148 

68.  The  Helping  Hand  of  Nature  -  150 

69.  Lincoln  County  Oil  Pools  (map)  152 

70.  The  Diamond  Springs  Gas  Field  (map)  153 

71.  Northern  Flank  of  Pine  Mountain  Anticline  164 

72.  An  Even  Sky-Line  of  Pottsviile  Conglomerate 166 

73.  Shooting  Bohon  No.  1,  Warren  County,  Kentucky 172 

74.  Wayne  and  Cumberland  Oil  Fields  (map)  174 

75.  View  at  Torrent,  Wolfe  County,   Kentucky 176 

76.  A  Standard  Rig  Near  Estill  Furnace , 612 

77.  A  Portable  Drilling  Rig  on  Big  Sinking.. 613 

78.  Producing  Well  and  Storage  Tank  on  the  Jack  Wells  Lease, 
Irvine  Pool  Extension  615 

79.  The  Famous  Angie  McReynolds  Gusher  616 

80.  Oil  Storage  and  Drilling 618 

81.  Drillers'  Quarters  619 

82.  Completed  Oil  Well  on  Pump  and  Line  620 

83.  Offset  Wells  Drilled  Too  Close 621 

84.  Flowing  Well  on  Martha  Reynolds  Lease 623 

85.  Kentucky's  Largest  Flush  Production  Well  624 

86.  Crest  of  Temple  Hill  Anticline  624 

PANORAMAS 

Plate 

I.  "Bobby's  Ridge" — Lee  County,  Ky. 

II.  Field  Activity  on  Ross  Creek — Estill  County,  Ky. 

III.  Standard  Oil  Company's  Refinery— Louisville,  Ky. 

IV.  Cave  Fork  of  Big  Sinking  Creek — Lee  County,  Ky. 

ACCOMPANYING  MAPS  AND  DIAGRAMS 
Oil  and  Gas  Development  of  Caney— White  Oak  Anticline— Morgan 

and  Magoffin  Counties,  Ky. 

Geologic  Structure  of  Newcombe  Creek — Elliott  County,  Ky. 
Geologic  Map  of  Kentucky. 
Oil   and   Gas   Structure   at  Lewisburg   and    Epley— Todd   and   Logan 

Counties,  Ky. 

Kentucky— Appalachian  Oil  and  Gas  Fields. 
Pool  and  Pipe  Line  Map  of  Kentucky. 
Correlation  of  Oil  and  Gas  Sands  of  Kentucky. 
Stratigraphic  Correlation  from  Bull  Fork,  Menifee  County,  to  Buffalo 

Creek,  Perry  County,  Kentucky. 

Structural  Geology  of  Irvine  Field— Estill  and  Powell  Counties,  Ky. 
Development  of  Big  Sinking  Field— Lee  County,  Ky. 


CHAPTER  I. 


THE  RE-BORN  OIL  FIELDS  OF  KENTUCKY 

Much  has  been  said,  but  considerably  less  has  been 
written  of  an  authentic  nature,  concerning  the  now  right- 
ly famous  oil  fields  of  Kentucky.  To-day  the  thought 
which  is  on  the  minds  of  not  less  than  ten  million  in- 
vestors in  the  eastern  United  States,  concerning  the  suc- 
cess of  this  rapidly  developing  oil  State,  justifies  some 
truthful  statement  with  respect  to  the  really  marvelous 
growth  which  has  taken  place. 

Toward  the  end  of  the  year  1914,  and  during  the 
early  part  of  1915,  the  production  of  Kentucky  crude 
petroleum  was  fast  ebbing.  Complete  and  accurate 
figures  for  these  two  years  show  a  total  production  for 
the  whole  State  of  Kentucky  rapidly  declining  below 
500,000  barrels  per  annum.  It  was  sagely  predicted  at 
this  time  by  many,  as  it  had  often  been  predicted  before, 
that  Kentucky  as.  an  oil  State  would  soon  take  her  place 
in  oblivion,  and  for  a  time  with  large  new  production 
from  new  fields  in  Kansas,  Oklahoma  and  Wyoming 
jumping  ahead  with  lighting-like  rapidity,  so  as  to  cause 
even  the  most  expert  calculators  to  indulge  in  mental 
calisthenics,  this  seemed  to  be  about  the  truth. 

However,  a  great  surprise  was  in  store  for  those 
pessimists,  and  hundreds  and  hundreds  of  thousands  of 
small  salaried  persons  owning  a  speculative  disposition, 
for  whom  oil  stocks  handled  on  low  margins  were  to 
provide  continuous  entertainment,  never  knew  of  the 
interesting  things  which  were  immediately  in  store  for 
them.  It  all  happened  in  the  first  part  of  1916,  when 
Charles  Dulin,  an  oil  operator  at  Irvine,  Estill  County, 
Ky.,  drilled  in  a  well  of  promise  in  a  hitherto  untested 
section  on  Cow  Creek.  For  a  time,  the  results  obtained 
in  this  well  did  not  become  public  information,  but  sooner 
or  later  the  whole  information  of  the  big  strike  leaked 
out,  and  a  wild  scramble  ensued  for  acreage  in  the  im- 
mediate vicinity. 

Oil  &  Gas— 1 


OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 


JESSE  OLIVER  LEASE,  ALLEN  COUNTY. 

This  is  a  small  lease  of  about  twenty-one  acres,  but  an  excellent 
producing  property.  Fifteen  wells  are  pumping  on  this  farm.  Many 
farmers  in  this  section  have  sold  their  royalty  and  surface  rights  and 
moved  away  leaving  the  operators  undisturbed.  Photo  by  W.  R.  Jill- 
son,  July  10,  1919. 

This  period  witnessed  then  the  rebirth  of  the  Ken- 
tucky oil  fields,  and  ushered  in  a  time  of  such  renewed 
activity  and  such  large  rapid  production  as  this  State, 
or  any  of  the  immediately  adjoining  states,  had  never 
before  seen.  Drillers,  contractors,  brokers,  promoters, 
salesmen,  mechanics,  supply  men  and  what  not  kind  of  in- 
dividuals followed  one  another  rapidly  by  tens  and  by 
hundreds  into  Kentucky  from  the  older  fields  of  Penn- 
sylvania, West  Virginia,  Ohio,  Indiana,  Illinois,  Kansas 
and  Oklahoma.  In  almost  less  time  than  it  takes  to  tell 
it,  housing  conditions  at  Irvine  became  entirely  inade- 
quate. The  hospitality  of  farmers  in  the  immediate 
vicinity  was  severely  overtaxed,  and  the  hotels  of  more 
distant  cities  like  Winchester,  Lexington  and  Mt.  Sterling 
were  clogged  with  men  who  had  made  the  "Klondike 
Eush"  to  Kentucky. 

In  the  face  of  the  most  difficult  drilling  conditions, 
development  .went  forward,  and  before  the  end  of  1916, 
the  production  of  Kentucky  stood  at  one  million  barrels 
with  every  weekly  pipe  line  run  showing  remarkable  and 


THE  RE-BORN  OIL  FIELDS  OF  KENTUCKY 


SHALLOW  DRILLING  IN  ROSS  CREEK,  ESTILL  COUNTY. 

View  on  the  J.  F.  Harris  farm  shows  the  intensity  of  the  drilling 
effort  in  this  particular  pool.    Photo  by  R.  L,  McClure,  March,  1919. 

unprecedented  advances.  By  the  end  of  1917,  the  pro- 
duction had  risen  to  three  million  barrels  and  at  the 
end  of  1918,  the  increase  had  not  stopped  at  four  mil- 
lion. The  year  1919,  the  greatest  year  in  the  oil  history 
of  Kentucky,  which  has  witnessed  the  development  and 
zenith  flush  production  of  such  pools  as  the  Ashley,  the 
Big  Sinking,  the  Scottsville,  and  the  Gainesville,  it  is 
thought  will  show  a  total  production  of  crude  oil  in  Ken- 
tucky of  at  least  7,500,000  barrels  if  the  present  produc- 
tion continues.  Already,  with  six  months  of  this  year 
past,  the  figures  still  incomplete  show  a  total  of  3,142,488 
barrels,  which  is  greater  than  the  total  production  of  the 
year  1917,  and  larger  by  many  thousands  of  barrels  than 
all  of  the  production  from  the  State  of  Kentucky  prior 
to  the  year  1900. 

KENTUCKY,  AN  OIL  STATE  ONE  HUNDRED  YEARS  OLD. 

In  order  to  get  a  true  idea  of  the  importance  of  re- 
cent development  in  Kentucky  in  oil  and  gas,  it  is  nec- 
essary to  look  backward  over  a  whole  century  to  the 
year  1819,  when  Martin  Beatty  of  Abingdon,  Virginia, 
drilled  in  the  first  oil  well  in  Kentucky  on  the  South 
Fork  of  the  Cumberland  River  close  to  the  Tennessee 


4  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

line  in  what  is  now  McCreary  County,  but  was  then 
Wayne  County.  Beatty  had  no  idea  that  he  was  going  to 
get  oil.  In  fact  he  did  not  want  oil,  and  knew  nothing 
about  oil.  He  was  drilling  a  shallow  well  for  salt,  which 


OHIO  COUNTY   OIL  PROPERTIES. 

View  of  the  Howard  No.  1  well  which  was  drilled  to  a  total  depth 
of  1,740  feet  in  1913.   Photo  by  W.  R.  Jillson. 

at  that  day  and  time,  with  railroads  unknown,  and  over- 
land mountain  transportation  extremely  difficult  and 
laborious,  was  a  necessity  of  much  greater  importance. 


THE  RE-BORN  OIL  FIELDS 'OF  KENTUCKY  5 

Written  records  of  this  early  well  are  few  and  vague, 
but  it  may  be  supposed  that  the  inhabitants  of  this  sec- 
tion, as  well  as  Beatty,  the  driller  himself,  were  dis- 
gusted when  they  secured  oil,  for  their  chances  of  re- 
covering salt  brine  from  such  a  well  were  spoiled.  The 
farmers  in  this  section,  however,  soon  found  that  this 
new  rock  oil — hence  the  newly  coined  word,  " petroleum" 
— had  some  advantages,  which  they  did  not  at  first 
suspect.  It  came  to  be  regarded  as  a  universal  cure-all 
for  many  kinds  of  ills  to  which  the  huamn  flesh  falls 
heir,  and  was  also  discovered  to  be  of  some  service  in 
ridding  hogs  and  other  farm  animals  of  vermin. 

Cumberland  County,  forty  miles  to  the  west,  follow- 
ed in  1828  with  flowing  oil  production  from  what  are 
now  known  to  be  the  Upper  Ordovician  rocks.  Here  was 
developed  at  Burkesville — again  as  the  result  of  salt 
water  well  prospecting — what  came  to  be  known  through- 
out the  world  as  the  Great  American  well.  The  man  who 
drilled  it,  whose  name  has  since  been  lost,  said  that  he 
would  either  get  salt  water  or  drill  into  hell.  He  did  not 
realize  that  he  was  going  to  be  forced  to  literally  eat  his 
words,  but  when  flowing  production  was  encountered  at 
a  shallow  depth  and  the  oil  and  gas  escaping  caught  fire, 
lie,  following  the  superstitious  tendencies  of  his  class, 
thought  that  he  had  opened  up  the  infernal  regions  be- 
neath. Report,  again  coming  from  the  lips  of  very  old 
inhabitants  of  this  section,  has  it  that  he  acknowledged 
that  he  had  failed  in  getting  salt,  but  had  done  what  he 
had  promised  and  opened  the  door  to  higher  thermal 
regions.  He  was  so  thoroughlv  convinced  of  his  failure 
that  he  did  not  stop  to  sell  his  belongings,  but  immedi- 
ately left  the  country,  returning  in  disgust  to  his  native 
hills  in  Pennsylvania. 

The  oil  from  this  phenomenal  well  flowed  unrestrain- 
ed down  the  little  branch  in  which  it  was  drilled  into  the 
Cumberland  River,  to  a  point  forty  miles  below  Burkes- 
ville, where  a  grass  fire  ignited  it  and  resulted  in  the 
very  unusual  phenomenon  of  a  burning  river,  for  the 
flames  cre<pt  back  little  by  little  to  the  mouth  of  the  well. 
People  of  this  day  and  time  who  have  become  so  calloused 
to  the  new  and  unusual  things  that  happen,  will  have 
difficulty  in  appreciating  the  conceptions  of  the  simple 
farmer  folk  of  this  region,  who  were  thus  introduced 


6  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

in  an  accidental  way  to  the  highly  inflammable  char- 
acteristics of  the  new  rock  oil — petroleum.  A  barrel  of 
this  oil  was  shipped  down  the  Cumberland  and  through 
New  Orleans  to  England  with  the  avowed  purpose  of 
having  it  analyzed  by  a  British  chemist.  Unfortunately, 
before  it  fell  into  the  hands  of  the  proper  parties,  suspic- 
ion fastened  itself  upon  the  dark,  oily,  unfamiliar  cargo, 
and  it  was  dumped  overboard  into  the  Atlantic.  Never- 
theless, the  growing  popularity  of  this  petroleum,  from 
a  medicinal  standpoint,  caused  its  fame  to  spread,  and 
before  long  it  became  commercialized,  being  put  up  in 
small,  dark,  half -pint  bottles,  with  the  name  "American 
Oil"  blown  in  them,  and  was  sold  everywhere  for  50  cents 
apiece.  In  this  day  and  time,  when  high  grade,  Ken- 
tucky, crude  oil  sells  for  $2.70  per  barrel,  it  may  be 
pointed  out  that,  through  an  irony  of  fate,  this  early  pro- 


ROSS  CREEK  DEVELOPMENT. 

View  of  the  activity  of  the  Bourbon  Oil  and  Development  Company 
on  the  J.  F.  Harris  farm.   Photo  by  R.  L.  McClure,  March,  1919. 

duction  secured  a  price  per  barrel  which  was  125  times 
greater  than  the  present,  being  in  fact  about  $340  -per 
barrel. 


THE  RE-BORN  OIL  FIELDS  OF  KENTUCKY  7 

Great  advances,  however,  were  being  made  in  Penn- 
sylvania during  this  period,  and  some  of  the  advantages 
of  petroleum  as  a  fuel,  especially  for  kerosene,  were  be- 
coming known.  Following  the  discovery  of  oil  near 
Burkesville,  salt  well  drilling  again  opened  up  oil  bear- 
ing, strata  in  the  lower  Coal  Measures  near  Barbour- 
ville  in  Knox  County.  This  well,  a  shallow  one,  flowed  for 
a  short  time.  With  its  discovery,  the  vertical,  geological 
delimitations  of  the  future  " producing  sands"  of  the 
State  of  Kentucky  were  established,  and  subsequent  pros- 
pecting has  shown  no  commercial  production,  either 
higher  or  lower,  in  the  geological  scale,  though  it  is  true 
that  much  has  been  found  in  between  the  limits  that  was 
not  known  at  this  early  date. 

The  temporary  halt  in  the  development  of  the  oil 
and  gas  fields  occasioned  by  the  Civil  War  was  sudden- 
ly brought  to  a  close  by  a  wave  of  excitement  in  pros- 
pecting, which  spread  over  the  entire  State  of  Kentucky 
•luring  the  latter  part  of  the  '60s.  Wells  were  drilled 
everywhere.  Allen,  Barren,  Clinton  and  many  other  coun- 
ties joined  the  list  of  commercial  producers.  During  the 
latter  part  of  the  nineteenth  century,  a  great  demand  for 
crude  oil  for  the  purpose  of  kerosene  refining,  as  well 
as  for  a  growing  list  of  by-products,  restimulated  field 
activity  and  resulted  in  the  bringing  in  of  reports  of 
oil  and  gas  production,  and  shows  in  practically  every 
county  in  the  State  outside  of  the  central  Bluegrass  area. 

Louis  H.  Gormley,  an  experienced  oil  operator,  com- 
ing from  New  Castle,  Penn.,  in  1890,  journeyed  over  150 
miles  up  the  Big  Sandy  river  into  Johnson,  Floyd,  Ma- 
goffin,  Knott,  Letcher  and  Pike  counties.  At  that  time, 
there  was  no  railroad  in  this  part  of  Kentucky,  and  in 
fact,  one  did  not  come  into  this  section  until  nearly  fif- 
teen years  later.  Observing  the  general  similarity  of  the 
geology  and  topography  of  this  part  of  Kentucky  to  that 
of  the  oil  bearing  portion  of  his  native  state,  Pennsyl- 
vania, he  came  to  the  conclusion  that  circumstances 
favored  the  finding  of  oil  in  Floyd  County,  and  with  an 
adventurous  partner,  he  drilled  in,  in  1892,  at  the 
mouth  of  Salt  Lick  Creek  on  Eight  Beaver  Creek,  at  a 
depth  of  about  1000  feet,  the  first  flowing  oil  well  of 
eastern  Kentucky.  This  well  was  destined  to  become  the 
nucleus  of  the  now  famous  Beaver  Creek  oil  pool,  which 


OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OP  KENTUCKY 


HAULING  A  RIG  IN  THE  BIG  SANDY  VALLEY. 
Eastern  Gulf  Oil  Company  moving  its  heavy  National  rig  over  very 
poor  roads  from  Bull  Creek  to  Left  Middle  Creek,  Floyd  County,  Ky. 
Photo  by  W.  R.  Jillson,  March.  1918. 

has  been  producing  oil  daily  ever  since.  The  news  of 
the  strike  spread  rapidly  and  caused  a  great  influx  of  new 
capital  and  enthusiasm.  Other  wells  were  drilled  in  this 
and  adjoining  sections,  and  Floyd,  Knox  and  Wayne 
counties  came  to  the  front  with  substantial,  though 
small,  new  oil  production  from  the  "deeper  sands"  of 
the  Pennslyvanian  and  Mississippian  systems. 

The  second  chapter  of  the  development  of  Kentucky 
oil  fields  came  to  a  close  with  Meade,  Martin  and  Breck- 
inridge  counties  listed  as  gas  producers.  The  picturesque 
side  of  development  came  to  be  established,  for  in  none 
of  these  counties,  at  this  time,  were  modern  means  of 
transportation  available.  Supplies  had  to  be  secured  by 
long,  tortuous,  pole  boat  voyages  from  Ohio  river  trad- 
ing points.  As  compared  to  the  present,  it  was  indeed  a 
day  to  try  the  patience  and  ingenuity  of  the  most  clever 
and  hardy  men.  Inconveniences  and  disadvantages  were 
paramount  everywhere,  and  the  low  price  of  crude  pro- 
duction and  the  difficulty  with  which  it  was  placed  on 
the  market  made  small  wells  much  less  attractive  than 
now. 


THE  RE-BORN  OIL  FIELDS  OF  KENTUCKY  9 

DEVELOPMENT  SINCE  1900. 

Oil  prospecting  in  Kentucky  up  until  the  year  1900 
may  be  said  to  have  been  largely  preparatory  for  the 
greater  strikes  which  were  to  come.  In  the  century  year 
of  1900,  the  Eagland  oil  pool  in  Bath,  Rowan  and  Meni- 
fee  counties,  producing  a  black,  thick,  low  gravity  oil, 
was  drilled  in.  The  production  of  this  field,- now  nearly 
exhausted,  came  from  the  Onondaga  limestone,  which 
has  come  to  be  known  by  drillers  and  oil  people  gen- 
erally as  the  "Corniferous"  or  "Irvine"  sand.  It  is 
found  at  the  base  of  the  Kentucky  Devonian  system.  In 
this  field,  the  oil  "pay"  was  found  at  various  depths  of 
from  200  to  900  feet  below  the  surface. 


FIELD  ACTIVITY  ON  ROSS  CREEK,  ESTILL  COUNTY. 
View  on  the   Millie  Freeman  farm  operated  by  the  Lincoln   Oil 
Company.    Photo  by  R.  L.  McClure,  March,  1919. 

In  the  following  year,  1901,  gas  from  the  same  hori- 
zon was  "drilled  in  "in  the  Menifee  field  at  a  depth  of 
about  600  feet.  This  field  was  early  commercialized  for 
the  central  cities  of  Kentucky,  and  is  now  relatively  un- 
important, having  been  nearly  exhausted.  The  Sunny- 


10  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES   OF  KENTUCKY 

brook  pool  of  Wayne  County  was  drilled  in  in  the  same 
year,  oil  coming  at  a  depth  of  870  feet  from  the" Stray," 
"Mt.  Pisgah,"  "Beaver,"  "Otter,"  "Cooper"  and 
"Slickford"  sands  of  the  Mississippian  system.  Later  on, 
deeper  drilling  revealed  the  lower  Sunnybrook  sand  from 
the  Trenton  rocks  of  the  Ordoviciaii  system  as  an  oil  pro- 
ducer. 

During  this  period,  renewed  activity  and  deeper  drill- 
ing in  all  of  the  older  fields  continued  with  varying  suc- 
cess. In  1903,  the  Campton  oil  pool  of  Wolfe  County 
created  the  first  modern  sensation,  oil  being  struck  again 
in  the  Onondaga  limestone  at  a  depth  of  1,000  to  1,250 
feet.  All  told,  about  300  wells  were  drilled  into  this  small 
field,  each  averaging  in  production  about  fifty  barrels. 
It  was  at  this  time  that  a  small  amount  of  oil  production 
was  first  secured  by  rank  wild  catters  near  Irvine  in 
Estill  County.  The  extreme  shallowness  of  the  oil  hori- 
zon or  "pay"  here,  however,  caused  this  small  pool  to 
be  soon  drilled  up  and  exhausted.  In  the  same  year,  the 
Busseyville  and  Fallsburg  pools  of  Lawrence  County 
were  opened,  oil  being  produced  from  what  is  known  as 
the  Berea  "grit,"  at  a  depth  of  from  1,400  to  1,600  feet. 
The  production  from  this  pool  was  never  large,  but  like 
that  of  all  the  deeper  drilling  in  Eastern  Kentucky  pre- 
sented the  very  distinct  advantage  of  dependability  and 
long  life.  Within  the  last  three  or  four  years,  the  pro- 
duction of  this  section  has  been  increased  from  about 
1,800  barrels  per  month  to  the  present  production  of 
about  72,000  barrels  per  year. 

The  Cannel  City  pool,  in  Morgan  County,  was  usher- 
ed in  by  a  700-barrel  gusher,  which  was  drilled  in  in  1912. 
Great  activity  followed  the  opening  of  this  pool,  and  in 
1913,  a  maximum  production  of  twelve  thousand  barrels 
of  crude  oil  per  month  was  established.  The  pool,  how- 
ever, was  relatively  short  lived,  and  is  to-day  of  largely 
historical  importance,  though  still  producing. 

THE  PRESENT  PERIOD. 

Increasing  from  a  total  annual  production  of  62,259 
barrels  in  1900  to  1,217,337  in  1905,  and  1,213,548  in 
1906,  Kentucky  crude  oil  production  dropped  off  greatly, 
till  in  1915,  the  best  figures  obtainable  show  only  407,081 


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11 


barrels.  It  was  at  this  time  that  the  pessimist's  cry  was 
heard  the  loudest.  Kentucky  was  disclaimed  as  the 
southwestern  part  of  the  Applachian  oil  field,  and  men 
who  considered  themselves  real  oil  producers  stayed  away 
from  the  State.  A  stalemated,  over  produced  condition 
in  the  oil  market,  due  to  the  opening  of  the  Gushing  and 
other  new  pools  of  Oklahoma  and  Kansas,  was,  however, 
the  real  cause  of  the  inactivity  at  this  time. 

With  renewed  wartime  demands  for  crude  oil,  how- 
ever, and  an  increase  in  prices  of  all  grades  generally, 
a  restimulation  of  exploration  was  effected,  with  the  re- 
sult that  in  1916,  the  Irvine  pool  in  Estill  County,  Ky., 
was  extended  to  the  east  and  to  the  south.  In  Powell 
County,  the  Ashley  pool  was  opened  in  1917.  In  Lee 
County,  the  greatest  producer  in  the  Kentucky  oil  world 
of  recent  times — the  Big  Sinking  pool — was  drilled  in 
in  1918,  and  in  Allen  County,  southern-central  Kentucky, 
wild  cat  drilling  opened  up  the  Gainesville  and  Scotts- 
ville  pools  in  1918  and  1919.  In  the  early  summer  of  1919, 


COVERED  STORAGE,  ANGIE  McREYNOLDS'  LEASE. 

One  of  the  great  problems  confronting  the  producer  on  exception- 
ally highly  productive  lease  like  the  McReynolds  is  the  disposal  of  the 
"flush  production."  On  this  lease  when  a  gusher  flowing  a  reported 
1.000  barrels  came  in.  all  other  wells  on  the  lease  had  to  be  shut 
down  temporarily.  Photo  by  W.  R.  Jillson,  July  20,  1919. 


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WHERE  TOMBSTONES  AND  OIL  WELLS   COMPETE. 
View  across  the  little  country  cemetery  south  of  Scottsville,  Allen 
County,  Ky.,  to  the  Angie  McReynolds'  lease  which  adjoins.    Photo 
by  W.  R.  Jillson,  July  20,  1919. 

Ihe  Angle  McReynolds  pool  of  Allen  County,  and  the 
Jake  Moulder  pool  of  Warren  County,  were  drilled  in. 
These  last  named  seven  pools  centralize  the  greatest 
activity  in  Kentucky  today,  and  in  total,  are  producing 
about  125,000  barrels  per  week  as  taken  from  July,  1919, 
pipe  line  runs. 

In  all  of  these  pools,  the  production  comes  from  the 
Onondaga  limestone,  commonly  known  to  the  drillers  as 
the  "  Cornif  erous  "  or  "Irvine"  sand,  with  this  exception 
that  in  Allen  County,  at  least  some  of  the  lower  produc- 
tion certainly  comes  from  the  Niagaran  limestones  and 
shales  just  below  the  Onondaga.  In  the  Ashley  and  Big 
Sinking  pools  of  Lee  and  Powell  counties  of  eastern  Ken- 
tucky, the  Onondaga  or  "pay"  of  oil  sands  range  from 
800  to  1,300  feet  below  the  surface.  In  Allen  County  the 
production  comes  from  a  depth  of  about  250  to  400  feet 
below  the  surface.  There  are,  at  the  present,  about  1,000 
wells  being  drilled  in  Kentucky,  and  of  these  about  250 
are  in  Allen  County  alone.  Lee  County,  containing  the 
Big  Sinking  pool,  which  is  in  point  of  years  older  in  its 
development,  has  about  450  rigs  at  work,  and  the  re- 
maining 300  are  scattered  throughout  the  State. 


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13 


The  production  from  the  Big  Sinking  and  its  as- 
sociated pools,  coupled  with  that  of  the  Gainesville  and 
other  Allen  County  pools,  will,  for  the  years  1918  and 
1919,  exceed  by  many  thousands  of  barrels  the  total  pro- 
duction for  the  entire  State  of  Kentucky  up  to  the  pres- 
ent time.  What  promises  to  be  one  of  the  most  spectacu- 
lar new  pools  in  Kentucky  is  the  recently  discovered 
Moulder  pool  in  southeastern  Warren  County  on  the 


THREE  OILY   SISTERS. 

A  battery  of  three  500-barrel  tanks  standing  full  on  the  Jake 
Moulder  lease,  Warren  County.  This  storage  awaits  completion  of  the 
new  four-inch  pipe  line  to  Smith's  Grove.  Photo  by  W.  R.  Jillson, 
July  20,  1919. 

Barren  river.  The  oil  here  is  found  with  large  quantities 
of  salt  water,  and  a  strong  gas  head,  and  the  largest  and 
most  recent  well,  No.  8,  drilled  in  on  this  lease  had  a 
flush  production,  it  is  estimated,  of  between  2,000  and 
3,000  barrels.  This  well  was  a  real  gusher,  the  largest 
Kentucky  has  ever  witnessed,  and  flowed,  despite  vigor- 
ous efforts  to  close  it  in,  for  eighteen  hours.  A  six-inch 
stream  spurted  fountain-like  over  100  feet  above  the 
surface,  and  oil  covered  the  surrounding  territory  and 
flowed  down  an  adjoining  creek  like  water.  Just  what 
this  well  will  actually  do  cannot  be  said  at  present,  as 
pipe  line  connections  have  not  as  yet  been  made  and 
temporary  tank  storage  has  been  exhausted. 


14  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

With  the  drilling  in  of  spectacular  wells,  running 
everywhere  from  100  to  1,000  barrels  in  the  Ashley,  Big 


SIGN  OF  THE  TIMES  IN  WARREN  COUNTY. 
A  battery  of  eight  250-bbl.  wooden  tanks  recently  completed  and 
almost  immediately  filled  on  the  Jake  Moulder  lease.    Photo  by  W.  R. 
Jillson,  July  20,  1919. 

Sinking,  Scottsville,  Gainesville  and  Moulder  pools,  oil 
excitement  has  reached  its  uppermost  bounds.  Today, 
there  are  not  less  than  100,000  men  interested  directly  in 
the  oil  producing  business  in  Kentucky.  Leases,  which 
three  or  four  years  ago  could  be  secured  for  $1.00  a 
farm,  or  at  a  nominal  rental  of  lOc  or  25c  an  acre,  now 
sell  from  the  farmer  in  the  oil  producing  sections  for 
from  $10  to  $50  per  acre.  New  leases  undrilled,  written 
by  the  owner  of  the  land,  to-day  are  very  rarely  secured, 
as  practically  all  of  the  available  territory,  for  from  50  to 
100  miles  of  any  producing  field,  has  already  been  leased, 
and  much  of  it  prospected.  Leases  adjoining  production 
sell  for  from  $100  to  $500  per  acre,  and  adjoining  es- 
pecially attractive  producing  leases,  acreage  may  not  be 
secured  for  less  than  $1,000  to  $3,000  per  acre.  This  is 
what  the  professional  oil  man  calls  "proven  stuff,"  and  is 
bought  with  the  idea  that  it  may  be  depended  upon  to 
produce  oil.  Many  leases,  which  are  partly  drilled  up 
and  producing,  are  sold  on  what  is  called  a  production 


THE  RE-BORN  OIL  FIELDS  OF  KENTUCKY 


15 


basis.  The  lease  is  purchased,  together  with  its  produc- 
tion, on  a  basis  of  the  amount  of  oil  which  it  will  pro- 
duce on  a  ten  day  test,  and  the  prices  which  are  in  vogue 


BUCK   CREEK   OIL   POOL,  LINCOLN   COUNTY,   KENTUCKY. 

Views  of  producing  wells,  pumping  stations  and  storage  tanks  of 
the  Belvedere  Oil  Company  and  the  Daniel  Boone  Oil  Company.  Photo 
by  W.  R.  Jillson,  March  20,  1919. 

vary  from  $1,000  to  $1,500  per  barrel  per  day.  It  can  be 
seen  by  simple  arithmetic  that  a  100  barrel  well  sold  in 
such  a  way  is  very  valuable,  and  it  docs  not  take  more 
than  a  child  to  appreciate  that  as  the  number  of  wells 
or  their  size  in  barrels  is  increased,  the  interest  and  the 
consideration,  as  well  as  the  excitement,  accelerate. 

In  the  train  of  the  oil  development  in  Kentucky  has 
come  a  vast  amount  of  oil  promotion  with  the  result 
that  there  are  today  in  Kentucky  612  oil  corporations 
with  an  estimated  total  capitalization  of  $80,143,000.00 
This  fabulous  amount  of  money,  conceivable  only  to  the 
idle  rich  and  to  those  to  whom  the  juggling  of  unearned 
increments  has  become  a  pastime,  is  representative  of 
the  importance  of  the  oil  industry  in  this  State.  It  is  also 
indicative  of  the  growth  of  the  industry  during  the  past 
four  years,  for  prior  to  1916,  the  total  amount  of  wealth 
invested  in  exploring  for  oil  in  Kentucky  was  hardly 
a  fraction  of  what  it  is  at  present.  Over  capitalization, 


16  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

watering  of  stocks,  fabulous  prices  for  only  mediocre 
properties  have  been  some  of  the  attending  ills  which 
have  accompanied  the  development  of  the  oil  industry  in 
Kentucky. 

The  rapid  decline  of  some  wells  of  shallow  depths, 
which  were  prolific  flush  producers,  has  contributed  some 
degree  of  uneasiness  to  the  promoters  of  individual 
quick  wealth.  The  zenith  of  high  production  in  the  proven 
fields  of  the  Big  Sinking  and  Gainesville  pools  has  been 


ALLEN  COUNTY  CRUDE  OIL  GOING  IN  TO  STORAGE. 
View  at  the  ends  of  five  gathering  lines  of  the  Angie  McReynolds' 
lease.    Approximately  60  barrels  per  hour  were  being   emptied   into 
the  receiving  tank  at  the  time  this  photo  was  snapped.   Photo  by  W.  R. 
Jillson,  July  20,  1919. 

reached.  New  -pools  like  the  McKeynolds  and  the  Moulder 
still  remain  uncertainties  as  to  the  future.  The  wild  rush 
for  Kentucky  oil  stock  reached  its  apex  in  February  of 
this  year,  and  since  then  oil  stocks  have  been  less  sub- 
ject to  demand  than  they  were  in  the  six  months  preced- 
ing. At  the  present,  the  color  generally  of  the  oil  stock 
trading  business  is  decidedly  off,  and  the  wise  ones  are 
withdrawing  their  investments  from  companies  which 
have  an  unstable  character.  Federal  investigations  of 
the  manipulations  of  trust  moneys  and  stocks  of  oil  com- 
panies have  had  a  rather  depressing  effect  on  the  pur- 
chasing public,  and  the  straw  before  the  wind  indicates 
the  coming  day  of  a  more  reasonable  and  standardized 
order  of  affairs. 


CHAPTER  II. 


DATA  OF  KENTUCKY  OIL  AND  GAS 
PRODUCTION 

While  the  financial  side  of  the  oil  industry  has  been 
passing  through  an  important  period  of  rectification, 
development  in  the  fields  has  been  going  rapidly  forward. 
New  wells  are  being  brought  in  at  the  rate  of  from  75  to 
100  per  week,  and  new  pipe  lines  and  refineries  are  being 
constructed.  In  Louisville,  the  Standard  Oil  Company 
of  Kentucky  has  about  completed  a  new  2,000  barrel  re- 
finery on  its  River  Side  purchase,  and  this  refinery  is 
one  of  the  most  up-to-date  and  complete  in  the  United 
States.  There  are  besides,  in  this  State,  the  Etna  and 
the  Stoll  Refining  companies,  which  together  will  handle 
about  1,000  barrels  per  day.  In  the  eastern  Kentucky 
fields,  there  are  two  or  three  small  refineries,  and  at 
Bowling  Green  in  Warren  County,  a  refinery  with  500 
barrel  capacity  is  now  under  contemplation.  In  eastern 
Kentucky,  the  Cumberland  Pipe  Line  Company  handles 


SOUTH   FORK    STATION. 

An  important  pumping  plant  of  the  Cumberland  Pipe  Line  Com- 
pany, in  Powell  County,  Kentucky. 

18 


KENTUCKY  OIL  AND  GAS  PRODUCTION  19 

all  of  the  crude  petroleum  from  Wayne  County,  Beaver 
Creek  in  Floyd  County,  Irvine,  Station  Camp,  Boss 
Creek  and  Miller's  Creek  in  Estill  County,  Ashley  in 
Powell  County,  Big  Sinking  in  Lee  County,  Campton  in 
Wolfe  County,  Cannel  City  in  Morgan  County  and 
Busseyville  in  Lawrence.  This  line  passes  to  the  north- 
east through  West  Virginia,  and  connects  with  the 
Eureka  pipe  line,  with  a  terminus  at  Philadelphia,  Penn. 
In  Allen  County,  the  Indian  Refining  Company  has  a 
pipe  line  in  the  Gainesville  and  Scottsville  and  southern 
pools,  and  takes  its  oil  by  tank  cars  to  its  Lawrenceville, 
111.,  refinery.  A  small  part  of  Allen  County  production 
is  also  handled  by  tank  car  by  very  small  consumers. 
The  American  pipe  line,  recently  purchased  from  re- 
ceivers' sale,  takes  some  of  the  Gainesville  oil  to  Bowling 
Green.  A  new  pipe  line  is  contemplated  from  Bowling 
Green  to  northwestern  Allen  County  pools.  The  Smith's 
Grove  pipe  line,  tapping  the  Warren,  Allen  and  Barren 
County  pools  along  the  Barren  River,  with  terminus  at 
Smith's  Grove,  is  now  completed.  A  summary  of  pro- 
duction, as  based  on  pipe  line  runs  from  the  eastern  Ken- 
tucky  and  Allen  County  fields,  is  as  follows: 

PRODUCTION  OF  PETROLEUM  IN  BARRELS  IN  KENTUCKY 
FROM  1883  TO  1919. 

1883  4,755 

1884  4,148 

1885  5,164 

1886  4,726 

1887  4,791 

1888  5,096 

1889  5,096 

1890  6,000 

1891  9,000 

1892  6,500 

1893  3,000 

1894  1,500 

1895  1,500 

1896  1,680 

1897  322 

1898  5,568 

1899  18,280 

1900  62,259 

1901  137,259 

1902  ..  185,331 


20  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

1903    554,286 

1904     998,284 

1905    1,217,337 

1906    - 1,213,548 

1907     820,844 

1908    727,767 

1909  639,016 

1910  468,774 

1911    472,458 

1912    484,368 

1913    524,568 

1914    502,441 

1915    437,274 

1916     1,144,750 

1917     3,088,160 

1918     4,035,950 

1919,    estimated    7,500,000 

PRODUCTION   OF   EASTERN   KENTUCKY   PETROiLEUM    FIELDS. 
CUMBERLAND  PIPE  LINE  COMPANY  RUNS  FROM  WELLS. 

For  Year  Average 

Total  Runs  Daily 

Year                                                                    Barrels  Barrels 

1913    522,550  1,431.6 

1914 479,609  1,313.9 

1915    •       407,081  1,115.3 

1916    1,144,750  3,136.3 

1917    3,015,640  8,262.0 

1918    4,035,950  11,057.7 

1919  (First  six  months,  Jan.-June) 2,922,670  15,884.0 


22 


OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES   OF  KENTUCKY 


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PRODUCTION    OF    CRUDE    PETROLEUM    IN    EASTERN 

FIELDS   POR   THE   YEARS   1912-1919. 
RUNS    OP    CUMBERLAND  FIFE    LINE   CO. 


KENTUCKY 


Year 

Month 

Bbls. 

Total 
Per  Yr. 

Average 
Per  Daj 

Remarks 

1912 

September 

38,417 

I 

October 

37,756 

j 

Novembe 

39,271 

• 

December 

40,343 

1,298.2 

1913 

January 

41,982 

February 

36,751 

March 

39,194 

April 
May 

38,794 
42,716 

!  June 

39,068 

1  July 

48,119 

1  August 
September 

49,766 
52,328 

Cannel   City   Pool, 

I  October 

46,082 

Morgan   County. 

I  November 

43,929 

i              I 

December 

43,821 

522,550 

1,431.6 

1914 

January 

45,091 

February 
March 

42,737 
52.135 

April 

48,  555 

May 

43,017 

June 

42,464 

July 

40,698 

August 

24,985 

' 

September 

19,249 

October  . 

49,494 

November 

34,960 

December 

36,224 

479,609 

1,313.9 

1915 

January 

34.89S 

February 

34,255 

March 

38,204 

April 

38,995 

May 

37,270 

June 

35,458 

July 

32,643 

August 

32,504 

1  September 

30,930 

October 

29,297 

November 
December 

31,926 
30,701 

407,081 

1,115.3 

1916 

January 
February 

30,799 
38,345 

1  March 

49,242 

1  Anril 

63,104 

Cow    Creek    Pool, 

May 

83,348 

Estill    County. 

June 

76,469 

July 

85,973 

August 
September 

125,799 
136,659 

Fitchburg    District, 
Estill    County. 

October 

155,147 

1  November 

152,652 

1  December 

147.213 

,144,750 

3,136.3 

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24 


OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 


Year 

Month 

Bbls. 

Total 
Per  Yr. 

Per  Daj 
Averagt 

Remarks 

1917 

January 

150,330 

February 
March 

136,138 
171,325 

April 
May 

162,816 
236,566 

June 
July 
August 

254,108 
308,941 
311,  302 

Ashley    Pool, 
Powell    County. 

September 

323,897 

October 

346,381 

November 

33  **  898 

December 

28M3S 

1,  015,  640          8,262.0 

1918 

January 

262,424 

February 

285,995 

March 

316,753 

April 

306,849 

May 

298,022 

June 
July 

280,087 
304,058 

Big   Sinking   Pool, 
Lee    County. 

August 

360,586 

September 
October 

395,018 
408,537 

November 
December 

394,111 
423,510 

4,035,950 

11,057.7 

1919 

January 

476,488 

15.370.0 

1  February 

16,160.0 

1919  PRODUCTION, 

CUMBERLAND  PIPE  LINE  RUNS 

BY  MONTHS 

Average 

Total  Runs 

Daily 

Month 

Barrels 

Barrels 

3919  —  January 

476,488 

15,370.0 

1919  —  February 

451  857 

16,160.0 

1919—  March  ..  .. 

485,588 

15,680.0 

1919  —  April 

500,007 

16,667.0 

1919  —  May 

481  439 

15,530.0 

1919—  June   ... 

527,291 

17,576.0 

TANK  CAR,  ALLEN  COUNTY  CRUDE 

Year  Barrels 

1915    191.26 

1916  .. 27,616.23 

1917     31,936.94 

1918     20,990.86 

1919  (2%  months)  1,774.57 


Total  barrels  ..     82,509.86 


26  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

PIPE  LINE  RUNS,  ALLEN  COUNTY  CRUDE 
(Indian  Refining  Company) 

Year  Scottsville  Rodemer  Total 

1918    26,223.25  9,886.63  38,119.88 

1919  (2%  months) ,     38,455.56  17,906.71  56,362.27 


Total  barrels  94,482.15 

INDIAN  REFINING  COMPANY 

Total  Pipe  Line  and  Tank  Car  Shipment  From  Allen  County, 
January- June,  1919 

Barrels 

January  16,525.12 

February     24,177.61 

March    33,172.49 

April 45,092.05 

May    50,517.03 

June   ...  .     50,333.71 


Total    219,818.01 

SUMMARY  CRUDE  OIL  PRODUCTION  IN  KENTUCKY 

January-June,  1919 
Cumberland  and  Indian  Pipe  Lines  Only 

Barrels 

Cumberland    2,922,670 

Indian    ..  219,818 


Total  _...     3,142,488 

The  total  of  3,142,488  barrels  of  Kentucky  crude  oil 
for  the  first  half  of  the  year  1919  falls  a  little  short  of 
the  actual  amount  which  cannot  exactly  be  obtained.  A 
number  of  small  transportation  corporations  take  oil 
from  both  the  eastern  Kentucky  and  the  Allen,  Barren, 
Warren  County  fields,  and  the  figures  of  their  volume 
of  business  are  not  at  the  present  forthcoming. 


KENTUCKY  OIL  AND  GAS  PRODUCTION 


AN  OIL  PIPE  LINE  COMPETITOR. 

A  large  amount  of  oil  is  now  annually  transported  from  Beatty- 
ville  to  Louisville  Refineries  via  the  Kentucky  River.  Photo  by  W.  R. 
Jillson,  June  25,  1919 

VALUE  OF  PETROLEUM  PRODUCED  IN  KENTUCKY 
1904  TO  1919* 

1904 $984,938 

1905     943,211 

1906     1,031,629 

1907    862,396 

1908     706,811 

1909    518,299 

1910     324,684 

1911    328,614 

1912    428,842 

1913     675,748 

1914    498,556 

1915     418,357 

1916    2,189,812 

1917    : 8,029,216 

1918     10,493,470 

1919  (estimated)    19,500,000 

The  market  price  of  Kentucky  crude  oil  is  now  $2.70, 
this  price  covering  all  grades  designated  as,  "Somerset." 
The  single  exception  to  this  general  statement  is  that  of 
the  small  Kagland  production  which  is  designated  by 
the  same  name  and  sells  for  $1.25  per  barrel.  The  pe- 

*Mineral  Resources  of  United  States,  U.  S.  G.  S. 


28  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

troleum  of  Kentucky  is  for  the  most  part  light  green  in 
color,  very  fluid,  high  in  gasoline  content,  with  a  gravity 
which  runs  generally  between  32  and  38  Baume  scale. 
The  extremes,  however,  are  much  wider  apart.  The  low- 
est of  record  is  22  Baume,  the  sample  oil  specimen  com- 
ing from  the  Ragland  pool  in  Bath  County.  The  highest 
of  record  is  51.6  Baume  from  Johnson  County. 

BAUME  DENSITY  OF  KENTUCKY  CRUDE  PETROLEUM 


1. 
& 

3. 
.4. 
6. 
6. 

7. 
8. 
9. 
10. 
11. 
12. 
13. 
14. 
15. 
16. 
17. 
18. 
19. 
20. 
21^ 
22. 
23. 
24. 
25. 
26. 
27. 
28. 
29. 
30. 
31. 
32. 
33. 
34. 
35. 

Lab.  No.                                                                          Degrees 
43475     Allen  County                                

Baume. 
30. 
24.9 
25.4 
24.2 
24.5 
24.5 
25.0 
25.0 
24.7 
24.0 
24.4 
24.7 
25.2 
32.0 
23.7 
25.2 
22.5 
22.0 
41.0 
22.0 
22.6 
28.0 
35.5 
27.0 
45.0 
41.0 
33.0 
28.0 
32.0 
25.0 
28.0 
38.9 
38.9 
38.5 
23.3 

36292     Probably  Bath  County 

36293     Probably  Bath  County 

36294     Probably  Bath  County 

36295     Probably  Bath  County 

36269  —  Probably  Bath  County  

36270  —  Probably  Bath  County 

36271  —  Probably  Bath  County      .                

36929     Probably  Bath  County 

36330     Probably  Bath  County 

36331  —  Probably  Bath  County 

36332     Probably  Bath  County 

36333     Probably  Bath  County 

36334  —  Probably  Bath  County  

36206     Probably  Bath  County 

25857  —  Probably  Bath  County 

14987  —  Morehead  Oil  &   Gas   Co  

14565  —  "Ragland,"  Bath  County  .          ....          

14522  —  Yale  Oil  Company,  Bath  County 

14314—  E.  B.  Fletcher,  Powell  County  

11964  —  From  Bath  County  

11190  —  Shouse  Well,  Hendrick  Farm,  Bath  County  
10325—  For  J.  B.  Hoeing  _.  

10241  —  John  Williams,  Lewis  County 

10156  —  From  Scottsville,  Allen  County  

9888  —  From  Clinton  County 

9749  —  Rose  Run  Iron  Co.,  Bath  County 

9750  —  From  M.  Carey  Peter,  Louisville 

9751  —  Lincoln  County,  near   Stratford 

9431  —  From  D.  F.  Frazee,  Lexington 

9283—  Isola  Oil  &  Gas  Co.,  Beech  Grove,  Ky  
9238  —  Wood  Richardson,  Flemingsburg 

51656  —  Bowling  Green,  Warren  County  
51839  —  Bowling  Green,  Warren  County 

G-3785—  Powell  County  .... 

KENTUCKY  OIL  AND  GAS  PRODUCTION  29 

Lab.  No.  Degrees  Baume. 

36.  Gf-3786— Powell    32.8 

37.  Geol.  Report,  2732— Lower  Laurel  Creek  34.1 

38.  51556 — From  Bowling  Green,  Warren  County 38.89 

39.  51839 — Mississippi  Oil,  Gas  &  Inv.  Co.,  Bowling  Green, 

Warren    County    „ 38.5 

40.  56426— Dr.  L.  R.  Henry,  N.   Middletown,  Oil  from   (?) 

County 29.8 

41.  56636— Leland  Hanks,  Lexington,  Oil  from   (?)   County  38.7 

42.  56641— J.  H.  Harris,  Versailles  Oil  Co.,  Lincoln  County!.  22.2 

43.  56667— H.  L.  Overall,  Scottsville,  Allen  County 39.7 

44.  56668 — Addison  Foster,  Oil  from  Johnson  'County 51.6 

45.  G-3807 — John  Jackson  Farm,  Bowling  Green,  Warren  Co.  38.89 

46.  G-3834— J.  B.  Winlock,  Barren  County  44.6 

47.  G-3841 — Jordan  Farm  near  Oil  City,  Barren  County 39.5 

48.  G-3844— Pottsville  Horizon,  Magoffin  County  22.0 

49.  G-3851 — Drakes  Creek,  Warren  County  36.7 

50.  G-3852— Tom  Smith,  Barren  County  35.1 

Range  22°  to  51.6°  Baume  in  50  samples. 

ALFRED  M.  PETER,  Chief  Chemist. 
August  11,  1919. 

DISTILLATION  RECORDS  OF  KENTUCKY  CRUDE  OIL 
RECORD  No.  1.  SCOTTSVILLE,  ALLEN  COUNTY,  KY.,  CRUDE 

Initial  Boiling  Point  300  Gravity  Baume  26.0 

Temp.  Condenser  80  Maximum  Boiling  Point  650 

Per  Cent       Temp.         Gravity                               Per  Cent  Temp. 

Off.               "F"                Be.                                          Off.  "F" 

10                 350                 42.8                                           212 

20       425       38.4                  3.0  300 

30       522       35.5                 10.0  350 

40       580       33.0                 13.0  365 

50       620       31.6                 15.0  375 

60       640       30.6                 19.0  400 

70       650       30.5                 22.0  460 

80      26.0  500 

90      68.0  650 

98      

Per  Cent  Total  Recovery  

Loss  in  Gravity  

32%  Bottoms.  15.8  Grav. 

(Signed)   W.  EXTON. 
August  30,  1918. 


SO        OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

RECORD  NO.  2.  BEATTYVILLE,  LEE  COUNTY,  KY.,  EASTERN 
GULF  OIL  CO.  CRUDE 


Initial 

Boiling 

Point  100 

Gravity  Baume  42.5 

Temp.  Condenser  64 

Maximum  Boiling 

Point   560 

Per  Cent 

Temp, 

Gravity 

Per  Cent 

Temp. 

Off. 

"F" 

Be. 

Off. 

"F" 

10 

202 

78.6 

12.0 

212 

20 

270 

63.0 

24.4 

300 

30 

398 

54.1 

31.0 

350 

40 

438 

48.1 

32.2 

365 

50 

540 

41.3 

33.6 

375 

60 



36.6 

400 

70 



42.6 

460 

80 

46.0 

500 

90 

54.0 

560 

Per  Cent  Total  Recovery 

Loss  in  Gravity 
Bottoms.    No.  Loss. 

(Signed)  L.  H.  LANG. 


Oct.  23,  1918. 


RECORD  NO.  3.    ESTILL  COUNTY,  KY.,  CRUDE 
Initial  Boiling  Point  180  Gravity  Baume  34.8 

Temp.  Condenser  34  Maximum  Boiling  Point  89%  @  750 


Per  Cent 

Temp. 

Gravity 

Per  Cent 

Temp. 

Off. 

"F" 

Be. 

Off. 

"F" 

10 

260 

63.8 

Flash   @   Temp. 

3.0 

212 

Chill   O/? 

20 

328 

55.0 

300 

30 

400 

48.5 

23.2 

350 

40 

476 

41.5 

Sulphur 

25.6 

365 

50 

550 

37.2 

Determinations 

27.0 

375 

60 

626 

33.2 

.520% 

30.0 

400 

70 

676 

29.9 

Hamilton    Oil 

38.0 

460 

80 

730 

28.3 

44.4 

500 

90 

750 

26.6 

50.0 

550 

98 





May  22,  1919. 


Per  Cent  Total  Recovery 

Loss  in  Gravity 
11%  Bottoms.  No.  Loss. 

(Signed)  R.  F.  B. 


KENTUCKY  OIL  AND  GAS  PRODUCTION  31 

RECORD    NO.    4.    LINCOLN    COUNTY,    KY.,    DANIEL    BOONE    OIL 
CO.'S  CRUDE 


Initial  Boiling 

Point  194 

Gravity  Baume  32.4 

Temp.  Condenser  66 

Maximum  Boiling  Point  600 

Per  Cent       Temp 

Gravity 

Per  Cent 

Temp. 

Off.              "F" 

Be. 

Off. 

•<F» 

10                 230 

54.8 

.2 

212 

20                 388 

49.8 

5.2 

300 

30                 454 

44.4 

14.2 

350 

40                 518 

39.9 

16.7 

365 

50                 584 

36.3 

18.4 

375 

60                 600 

2000  bbls.  in  storage  22.0 

400 

70               



31.8 

460 

80 



38.0 

500 

90               

98 



56.0 

600 

Per  Cent  Total  Recovery 

Loss  in  Gravity 
44%  Bottoms.  No.  Loss. 

(Signed)  L.  H.  LANG. 


Oct.  11,  1918. 


RECORD  NO.  5.  LINCOLN  COUNTY,  KY.,  DANIEL  BOONE  OIL  CO., 
CRUDE 


Initial  Boiling  Point  128 
Temp.  Condenser  70 


Per  Cent 

Temp. 

Gravity 

Off. 

"F» 

Be. 

10 

226 

69.5 

20 

282 

59.0 

30 

350 

52.8 

40 

432 

45.7 

50 

514 

39.8 

60 

596 

35.8 

70 

640 

33.3 

80 

650 

33.0 

90 





98 



Gravity  Baume  37.0 
Maximum  Boiling  Point  650 


Per  Cent 

Temp. 

Off. 

"F" 

8.2 

212 

22.6 

300 

30.0 

350 

32.4 

365 

33.8 

375 

36.4 

400 

43.6 

460 

49.0 

500 

61.0 

600 

Per  Cent  Total  Recovery 

Loss  in  Gravity 
20%  Bottoms.  No.  Loss. 

(Signed)  L.  H.  LANG. 


Oct.  8,  1918. 


32  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES   OF  KENTUCKY 

ANALYSES  OF  KENTUCKY  CRUDE  OIL  BY  STATE  CHEMIST 
ANALYSIS  No.  1. 

Laboratory  No.  G-3851. — Petroleum  labeled  "Green 
Oil  Waverly  Stray  horizon,  above  Black  Shale,  on 
Drake's  Creek,  Warren  County,  Ky.  V.  Humbrecht, 
lessee.  Depth  115  ft.  Collected  by  W.  E.  Jillson,  Aug. 
2,  1919,"  Sample  a  rather  thin,  green  oil,  dark  brown 
by  transmitted  light. 

Specific  gravity  by  hydrometer  at  60°  F.,  0.840=36.7°  Baume. 

Distilled  below  150°   F.   (gasoline  fraction) 20.0% 

Distilled  between  300  and  572°  F.  (burning  oil  fraction) 36.5% 

Residue  of  thick,  brown  oil  42.8% 

Loss  on  distillation  ...  0.7% 


Total    100.0% 

Percentage  by  volume. 

(Analysis  by  A.  M.  Peter.) 

Aug.  11,  1919.  ALFRED  M.  PETER,  Chief  Chemist. 


ANALYSIS  No.  2. 

Laboratory  No.  G-3844.— Black  oil,  Pottsville  hori- 
zon, Magoffin  County,  Ky.,  Short  Fork  of  Burning  Fork 
of  Licking  River.  Collected  by  W.  E.  Jillson,  January 
2,  1918.  Sample  a  thick,  dark  brown  oil. 

Specific  gravity  at  60°  F.,  .921  or  22°  B. 

Per  Cent 
by  Volume 

Distillate  below  150°  C.  (302°  F.)  gasoline  fraction trace 

Distillate  from  150  to  300°  C.  (302-572°  F.)  burning  oil  frac- 
tion    32 

Thin  tar,  by  difference  68. 

100. 

On  continued  heating,  until  coke  began  to  form  in  the  flask,  84.5 
per  cent,  of  distillate  was  obtained. 
Analysis  by  A,  M.  Peter  and  S.  D.  Averitt. 
June  3.  1919.  ALFRED  M.  PETER,  Chief  Chemist. 


Oil  &  Gas— 2 


34  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

ANALYSIS  No.  3. 

Laboratory  No.  G-3857 — Petroleum  labeled  "Crude 
oil  produced  by  the  Great  Central  Company.  Prestons- 
burg,  from  a  well  at  the  mouth  of  Middle  Creek,  Floyd 
County,  Ky.  Collected  by  W.  R.  Jillson,  October  29, 1918. 
T^rom  the  Weir  sand,  1425  ft." 

Sample,  a  thick,  green  oil. 

Specific  gravity  at  60°  P.,  0.877,  equivalent  to  29.6°    Baume. 

Distilled  below  150°  C.   (302°  F.)   none 

Distilled  between  150°  and  300°  C.  (302-572°  F.) 32.8% 

Thick,  oily  residue  66.7% 

Total    99.5% 

Began  to  distil  at  160°  C.   (320°  F.). 

ALFRED  M.  PETER. 

Chief  Chemist 
(Analysis  by  A.  M.  Peter.) 
Sept.  4,  1919. 

ANALYSIS  No.  4. 

Laboratory  No.  G-3856— Petroleum  labelled  "Green 
oil  from  the  Cumberland  Pipe  Line  at  Ivyton,  Magoffin 
County,  Ky.  Collected  by  W.  R.  Jillson,  1918.  (Speci- 
men was  exposed  to  air.j" 

Sample,  a  thin,  green  oil. 

Specific  gravity  at  60°F.,  0.835,  equivalent  to  37.7°  Baume. 

Distilled  below  150°  C  (302°  F.) 20.0%  (Gasoline  fraction) 

Distilled  between  150°  and  300°C. 

(302-572°  F.) 31.0%   (Burning  oil  fraction) 

Thick,  oily  residue  49.0% 


Total    100.0% 

Began  to  distill  at  65°  C.  (149°  F.) 

ALFRED  M.  PETER,  Chief  Chemist. 
(Analysis  by  A.M.Peter.) 
Sept.  4,  1919. 

.ANALYSIS  No.  5. 

Laboratory  No.  G-3855— Petroleum,  labeled  "Green 
oil  from  the  Major  wells,  west  of  Leitchfield,  Grayson 
County,  Kentucky.,  Carl  Dresser,  operator.  Collected  by 


KENTUCKY  OIL  AND  GAS  PRODUCTION  35 

W.  R.  Jillson,  August  26,  1919.  Oil  horizon  a  Waverly 
*  stray  sand. '  ' '  Sample  from  open  tank  and  probably  old 
pumping  in  part. 

Sample,  a  rather  thin,   slightly  greenish  oil,  dark 
brown  by  transmitted  light. 

Specific  gravity  at  60°  iF.,  0.8785,  equivalent  to  29.4°  Baume. 

Distilled  below  150°  C.   (302°  F.) 7.4%  Gasoline  fraction) 

Distilled  between  150°  and  300°  C. 

(302-572°  F.)  33.5%   (Burning  oil  fraction) 

Tarry  residue  59.0% 


Total    99.9% 

Began  to  distill  at  85°  C.  (185°  F.). 

ALFRED  M.   PETER,   Chief   Chemist. 
(Analysis  by  A.  M.  Peter.) 
Sept.   4,    1919. 

ANALYSIS  No.  6. 

Laboratory  No.  G-3854 — Petroleum,  labeled  "  Green 
oil  from  S.  R.  Moffit  well,  west  of  Leitchfield,  Grayson 
County,  Ky.,  Carl  Dresser,  lessee.  Collected  by  W.  R. 
Jillson,  August  26,  1919.  Oil  horizon  a  Waverly  'stray'' 
sand. '  ' '  Sample  had  been  exposed  to  air  a  few  days. 

Sample  a  thick,  slightly  greenish  oil,  very  dark 
brown  by  transmitted  light. 

Specific  gravity  at  60°  F.,  0.870,  equivalent  to  30.9°  Baume. 

Distilled  'below  150°  C.   (302°  F.) 3.8%   (gasoline  fraction) 

Distilled  between  150°   and  300°   C. 

(302-572°  F.)  34.5%  (Burning  oil  fraction) 

Heavy,   tarry   residue    61.5% 


Total    99.8% 

Began  to  distill  at  116°  C.  (241°  F.) 

ALFRED  M.  PETER,   Chief  Chemist. 
(Analysis  by  A.  M.  Peter.) 
Sept.  4,  1919. 

ANALYSIS  No.  7. 

Laboratory  No.  G-3861 — Petroleum  labeled  "Lessor 
(Dr.)  Hunter.  Lessee,  Duplex  Oil  Co.,  3  miles  west  of 
Bowling  Green,  Warren  County,  Ky.  960  feet,  total 


36  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

depth,"   Keceived  from  W.  B.  Jillson,  State  Geologist, 
September  15,  1919. 

ANALYSIS. 

Specific  gravity  0.834  at  60°  F.,  equivalent  to  37.9°  B. 

Distilled  below  150°  C.   (302°  F.) 20.2%   (Gasoline  fraction) 

Distilled  from  150°  to  300°  C.  (302-572° 

F.)    32.0%  (Burning  oil  fraction) 

Thick,  brown  tar  45.0% 

Loss  in  analysis 2.8% 


100.00% 
The  oil  began  to  distill  at  65°  C.    (149°  F.) 

ALFRED  M.  PETER,  Chief  Chemist 
(Analysis  by  A.  M.  Peter.) 
Sept.  19,  1919. 

ANALYSIS  No.  8. 

Laboratory  No.  G-3865— Petroleum  labeled  "Fresh, 
green  oil,  Joe  B.  Surnpter,  No.  1,  Mrs.  Gray,  lessee,  y>> 
mile  W.  of  Bowling  Green,  Warren  Co.,  Ky.  Oil  at  880- 
900  ft.,  total  depth  920  ft.  Oil  horizon,  Niagara.  Col- 
lected by  W.  R.  Jillson,  Sept.  14,  1919."  Received  from 
W.  R.  Jillson,  State  Geologist,  September  15,  1919. 

ANALYSIS. 

Specific  gravity  at  60°  F.,  0.865,  eqivalent  -to  31.9°  B. 

Distilled  below  150°  C.  (302°  F.) 9.3%    (Gasoline  fraction) 

Distilled  from  150°  to  300°  C. 

(302-572°    F.)    37.5%    (Burning  oil  fraction) 

Tarry   residue   52.5% 

Loss  in  analysis  0.7% 


100.0% 
The  oil  began  to  distill  about  80°  C.  (176°  F.) 

ALFRED  M.  PETER,  Chief  Chemist. 
(Analysis  by  A.  M.  Peter.) 
Sept.  19,  1919. 

ANALYSIS  No.  9. 

Laboratory   No.    G-3864-^Petroleum,    labeled  "  (d) 
Green  oil,  Maj.  R.  W.  Covington,  No.  1,  355  ft.  above 


KENTUCKY  OIL  AND  GAS  PRODUCTION  37 

shale,  1/2  mile  southeast  of  Bowling  Green,  Warren  Co., 
Ky.  Sept.  15, 1919."  Received  from  W.  R.  Jillson,  State 
Geologist,  September  15,  1919. 

ANALYSIS. 

Specific  gravity  at  60°  F.,  0.854,  equivalent  to  33.9°  B. 

Distilled  below  150°   C.    (302°  F.) 13.0%   (Gasoline  fraction) 

Distilled  from  150°  to  300°   C. 

(302-572°    F.)    36.5%   (Burning  oil  fraction) 

Tarry  residue   50.0% 

Loss  in  analysis  0.5% 


100.0% 
The  oil  began  to  distill  at  75°  C.  (167°  F.) 

ALFRED  M.  PETER,  Chief  Chemist. 
(Analysis  by  A.  M.  Peter.) 
Sept.  19,  1919. 

ANALYSIS  No.  10. 

Laboratory  No.  G-3863— Petroleum  labeled  "  Green 
oil,  open  steel  tank.  Horace  Bohon,  No.  1.  A.  Goldstein, 
lessee.  840  ft.  deep,  below  shale.  1  mile  E.  of  Bowling 
Green,  Warren  County,  Ky.  Collected  by  W.  R.  Jillson, 
Sept.  14, 1919."  Received  from  W.  R.  Jillson,  State  Geo- 
logist, September  15,  1919. 

TO»I":-S    : 

ANALYSIS. 

Specific  gravity  at  60°  F.,  0.856,  equivalent  to  33.6°  B. 

Distilled  below  150°   C.   (302°   F.) 13.0%   (Gasoline  fraction) 

Distilled  from  150°  to  300°  C. 

(302-572°    F.)    36.5%   (Burning  oil  fraction) 

Tarry  residue  and  loss  by  difference 50.5% 


100.0% 
The  oil  began  to  distill  at  70°  C.  (158°  F.) 

ALFRED  M.  PETER,  Chief  Chemist. 
(Analysis  by  A.  M.  Peter.) 
Sept.  19,  1919. 

ANALYSIS  No.  11. 

Laboratory  No.  G-3862— Petroleum  labeled  "  Green 
oil  from  J.  A.  Hamilton  &  Co.,  Wayne  O'Neil,  lessee,  V2 
mile  N.  E.  of  Bowling  Green,  Warren  County,  Ky.  Oil 


S78G51 


38  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

horizon,  Onondaga  and  Niagara  limestones.  Depth  850 
ft  Collected  hy  W.  E.  Jillson,  September  14,  1919."  Ee- 
ceived  from  W.  E.  Jillson,  State  Geologist,  September 
15,  1919. 

ANALYSIS. 

Specific  gravity  at  60°  F.,  0.856,  equivalent  to  33.6°  B. 

Distilled  below  150°  C.  (302°  F.) 14.5%    (Gasoline  fraction) 

Distilled  from  150°  to  300°  C. 

(302-572°    F.)    - 34.5%    (Burning  oil  fraction) 

Tarry  residue  --      50.5% 

Loss  in  analysis  ~- 5% 

100.0% 
The  oil  began  to  distill  at  65°  C.  (149°  F.) 

ALFRED  M.  PETER,  Chief  Chemist. 
(Analysis  by  A.  M.  Peter.) 
Sept.  19,  1919. 

KENTUCKY  NATURAL  GAS 

The  natural  gas  production  of  Kentucky  is  but 
partially  commercialized  for  lack  of  extension  pipe  lines 
from  the  various  developed  gas  fields  to  the  trunk  pipe 
lines.  Crossing  the  State  from  east  to  west  are  two  main 
trunk  pipe  lines.  One  of  these,  the  Kentucky  Pipe  Line — a 
twelve-inch  line — extends  from  Inez,  in  Martin  County, 
to  the  city  of  Louisville,  which  it  serves  through  the 
Louisville  Gas  and  Electric  Company.  This  line  is  sup- 
posed to  carry  twelve  million  cubic  feet  of  natural  gas 
daily,  but  probably,  as  a  matter  of  fact,  carries  some- 
what less.  The  line  was  laid  and  connected  in  1907  and 
the  first  £as  carried  by  it  came  from  both  the  Martin 
County  field  and  West  Virginia  sources.  However,  dur- 
ing the  last  twelve  years  the  Martin  County  field  has 
shown  considerable  and  rapid  decline  in  both  rock  pres- 
sure and  volume  and  for  this  reason  an  increasingly 
larger  supply  has  come  to  be  taken  from  the  West  Vir- 
ginia compressor  station  at  Kermit  on  the  Tug  Fork  of 
the  Big  Sandy  Elver. 


KENTUCKY  OIL  AND  GAS  PRODUCTION 


39 


NATURAL  GAS  COMPRESSION  STATION  AT  KERMIT,  W.  VA. 

This  important  transportation  station  is  located  at  Kermit  just 
across  the  Tug  Fork  of  the  Big  Sandy  River,  from  Martin  County.  It 
is  owned  and  operated  by  the  United  Fuel  Gas  Company.  Photo  by  A. 
M.  Miller. 


THE  CENTRAL  KENTUCKY  NATURAL  GAS  PIPE  LINE 

The  second  of  these  large  trunk  gas  lines,  that  of 
the  Central  Kentucky  Natural  Gas  Pipe  Line  Company, 
extends  from  Inez,  in  Martin  County,  to  Lexington  and 
then  with  extension  to  Frankfort.  This  gas  has  within 
the  last  eight  months  connected  as  a  source  of  additional 
supply  from  Eastern  Kentucky,  the  newly  developed 
gas  fields  of  Paint  Creek  in  Johnson  and  Magoffin  coun- 
ties, and  Laurel  Creek  of  Johnson  and  Lawrence  coun- 
ties. The  Paint  Creek  extension  is  four-inch.  The  Laurel 
Creek  extension  is  six-inch  tubing.  Compressors  are  al- 
ready working  on  the  Laurel  Creek  line  and  will  soon  be 
in  operation  on  the  Paint  Creek  line.  It  is  estimated  that 
the  Central  Kentucky  Natural  Gas  Company  is  now  tak- 
ing about  between  two  and  three  million  cubic  feet  volume 
of  gas  from  these  two  new  fields  combined.  This  amount 
does  not  in  any,  except  a  small  \vay,  indicate  what  the 
capacity  of  these  two  gas  structures  will  be  when  they 
are  fully  developed  and  connected  to  the  compressor 
stations.  Further  to  the  west  this  main  trunk  gas  line 
connects  with  the  Menifee  gas  field  where  a  large  com- 


40  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES   OF  KENTUCKY 

pressor  station  is  located.  This  pipe  line  serves  besides 
the  larger  cities  of  Frankfort  and  Lexington,  the  smaller 
cities  of  Mt.  Sterling,  Paintsville,  Versailles,  Midway, 
Winchester  and  Paris. 

The  Central  Kentucky  Natural  Gas  Pipe  Line  Com- 
pany's line  from  Inez  to  Lexington  is  10  inches.  From 
Lexington  the  line  is  8-inch  to  the  Versailles  "cut  in" 
and  from  there  on  6  inches  to  Frankfort.  This  line  from 
Lexington  to  Frankfort  and  Versailles  is  owned  and  op- 
erated by  the  Frankfort  Natural  Gas  Company.  Between 
six  and  nine  million  cubic  feet  volume  of  gas  is  trans- 
ported daily  by  the  Central  Kentucky  Natural  Gas  main 
trunk  pipe  line.  Aside  from  the  two  or  three  million 
cubic  feet  of  gas  now  being  taken  by  this  company  from 
the  new  Paint  Creek  and  Laurel  Creek  fields  in  Johnson, 
Magoffin  and  Lawrence  counties,  the  greater  part  of  the 
gas  comes  from  West  Virginia,  through  the  Kermit  com- 
pressor station.  The  Menifee  field,  once  the  principal 
source  of  supply  of  this  pipe  line,  now  varies  from  a  very 
small  contributor  to  simply  a  ready  reserve  supply.  The 
Menifee  to  Lexington  line  was  first  installed  in  1905  and 
was  continued  further  eastward  to  Inez  in  1912.  The 
Paris  extension  was  made  in  1913  and  the  Frankfort  ex- 
tension was  connected  up  in  the  fall  of  1915. 

VALUE  OF  PRODUCTION  OF  NATURAL  GAS  IN  KENTUCKY 
FROM  1889  TO  1919.* 

1889  $2,580 

1890  30,000 

1891  38,993 

1892 43,175 

1893  68,500 

1894  89,200 

1895  98,700 

1896  99,000 

1897  90,000 

1898  103,133 

1899  125,745 

1900  286,243 

1901  270,871 

1»02  365,611 

1903  'v 390,601 

1904  322,404 


*Mineral  Resources  of  United  States.  U.  S.  G.  S. 


KENTUCKY  OIL  AND  GAS  PRODUCTION  41 

1905  $237,590 

1906    287,501        ,-ii 

1907    380,176 

1908    424,271 

1909 .....        485,192 

1910 456,293 

1911    407,689 

1912 522,455 

1913 509,846 

1914    490,875 

1915 614,998 

1916 752,635 

1917  (estimated)   902,635 

1918  (estimated)   , 1,052,000 

1919  (estimated)   1,275,000 

GAS  ANALYSIS 

No.  1. — Sample  taken  from  Jason  Boggs,  No.  1, 
Cain's  Creek,  Lawrence  County,  Ky.,  June  1,  1917.  Well 
drilled  by  Clinton  Oil  and  Gas  Co.  Analysis  submitted  by 
H.  E.  Holt,  Huntington,  W.  Va. 

Specific   gravity    (H=l)    _ 10.16 

Carbon  dioxide 14% 

Oxygen 36% 

Light  naphtha  per  1,000  cu.  ft 1.10  gal. 

Probable  recovery  of  light  naphtha  per  1,000  cu.  ft.  of  gas  by 

compression  none 

(Signed)  H.  H.  CRAVEN,  Chief  Chemist, 

Pittsburg  Testing  Laboratory,  Pittsburg,  Pa. 

GEOGRAPHIC  LOCATION  OF  KENTUCKY  NATURAL  GAS 

The  greatest  natural  gas  province  of  Kentucky  will 
always  be  the  eastern  portion  of  the  State.  Some  gas  pro- 
duction has  been  secured  at  a  number  of  widely  distri- 
buted points  and  some  of  the  southern-central  counties 
have  materially  increased  their  gas  development  during 
the  past  year.  Yet  none  of  this  newer  gas  area  promises 
anything  like  the  established  territories  of  Eastern  Ken- 
tucky. The  facts  in  the  case  are  these:  Besides  Menifee 
and  Martin  there  are  at  least  a  full  dozen  or  fifteen  coun- 
ties in  the  Eastern  Coal  Field  which  with  careful  scien- 
tific and  systematic  development  may  be  looked  upon 
as  a  great  gas  reserve.  It  is  an  assured  fact  that  sufficient 


42  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

natural  gas  for  conserved  domestic  consumption  in  Ken- 
tucky may  be  secured  from  this  now  partly  developed 
group  of  gas  fields  for  a  great  many  years. 

Since  it  is  admitted  by  both  the  practical  and  the 
theoretical  oil  and  gas  producer  that  the  drill  is  the  ulti- 
mate agent  in  determining  the  occurrence  of  oil  or  gas 
in  commercial  quantity  in  the  deep  rocks,  it  will  not  be 
difficult  for  the  layman  to  accept  the  facts  presented  by 
completed  prospecting  drillings  in  various  parts  of  East- 
ern Kentucky.  Without  going  into  a  length  of  tedious  de- 
tail, which  could  scarcely  add  anything  to  the  accuracy 
of  this  statement,  it  is  a  demonstrable  fact  that  enough 
large  gas  wells  have  been  drilled  in  Morgan,  Lawrence, 
Elliott,  Johnson,  Magoffin,  Floyd,  Pike,  Breathitt,  Knott, 
Perry,  Owsley,  Wolfe  and  Knox  counties  to  demonstrate 
beyond  doubt  the  justifiableness  of  the  claims  of  these 
above  named  counties  to  widespread  recognition  as  a 
great  untapped  commercial  natural  gas  reserve.  In  these 
counties  absolute  figures  based  upon  accurate  measure- 
ments will  show  at  the  present  time  not  less  and  probably 
more  than  40,000,000  cubic  feet  of  natural  gas  in  open 
flow  at  the  tubing  head.  Eight  gas  structures  alone  in 
Eastern  Kentucky  taken  together  show  a  measured  open 
flow  volume  of  28,230,000  cubic  feet  of  natural  gas.  Out 
of  this  large  amount  about  four  million  feet  has  just 
recently  been  taken  over  by  the  Central  Kentucky 
Natural  Gas  Co.  Considered  as  a  whole,  however,  of  this 
forty  million^ cubic  feet  "index"  gas  probably  not  one- 
tenth  is  serving  any  commercial  purpose.  The  most  of 
it  remains  "shut  in"  and  unused,  for  the  operators  who 
drilled  it  in  were  searching  for  crude  oil  or  petroleum 
and  had  no  use  for  the  gas.  To  what  commercial  maxi- 
mum volume  this  "index"  40,000,000  cubic  feet  may  be 
increased  is  at  present  impossible  to  say,  but  the  figures 
will  be  many  times  greater  than  the  "index"  volume. 
The  larger  part  of  this  gas  is  located  at  some  distance 
from  any  public  service  trunk  pipe  line,  and  therefore 
is  at  the  present  time  of  slight  commercial  importance 
except  as  an  "index"  to  'producing  possibilities. 


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CHAPTER  III. 


THE  ORIGIN  OF  PETROLEUM  AND  NATURAL 
GAS. 

Historical  references  to  petroleum  and  natural  gas 
may  b6  found  among  the  earliest  written  records  of  man. 
There  .is  probably  no  doubt  but  that  the  earliest  nations 
knew  and  used  these  two  now  famous  natural  hydrocar- 
bons, tho 'little  is  to  be  found  in  written  records  concern- 
ing them.  Despite  this  early  knowledge,  little  progress 
has  been  made  by  man,  even  to  the  present  day,  when 
these  two  substances  have  come  to  take  such  an  import- 
ant economic  value,  in  determining  their  ultimate  source 
and  origin.  Altho  we  know  a  great  deal  about  their 
chemical  constituency,  their  interrelations  and  commer- 
cial grades,  we  are  not  much  wiser  concerning  the  source 
of  petroleum  and  natural  gas  than  were  our  very  earli- 
est ancestors.  Many  suggestions  and  hypotheses  have 
been  advanced  by  various- scientists,  around  whom  have 
been  developed  schools  of  ardent  advocates,  but  up  to 
the  present  time  no  one  conception  of  source  has  been 
universally  accepted,  nor  have  any  of  them  passed  be- 
yond the  stage  of  theory.  As  a  matter  of  fact,  most  of 
these  views  of  origin  or  source  are  based  upon  chemical 
relations  developed  in  laboratories  in  a  small  sort  of 
way  during  a  comparatively  short  time,  arid  are  therefore 
not  directly  comparable  to  the  means  or  the  scale  or  the 
time  employed  for  the  production  of  these  hydrocarbons 
in  the  natural  way.  It  is.  therefore,  perhaps  wise  to  sim- 
ply present  the  principal  lines  of  thought  surrounding 
this  subject  and  allow  the  reader  to  form,  if  he  wishes, 
his  own  conclusion. 

The  theories  of  source  or  origin  of  petroleum  and 
natural  gas  may  be  generally  separated  into  two  divis- 
ions: 

(1)  Those  views  which  attribute  an  inorganic  ori- 
gin. 

(2)  Those  attributing  organic  origin. 

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PETROLEUM  AND  NATURAL  GAS  45 

THE  INORGANIC  THEORY. 

It  may  be  well  to  state  at  the  outset  that  the  promul- 
gators  of  this,  the  inorganic  theory  of  origin  of  petro- 
leum and  nautral  gas,  were  for  the  most  part  men  who 
were  chemists  and  who  actually  knew  very  little  of  the 
geologic  conditions  which  surround  the  occurrence  of 
oil  and  gas  in  the  natural  condition  in  the  earth's  crust 
As  far  as  the  writer  is  informed,  the  men  who  are  advo- 
cating this,  the  inorganic  theory,  depend  entirely  upon 
chemical  proofs  and  chemical  hypotheses.  Very  few,  if 
any,  oil  and  gas  geologists  have  ever  endorsed  this  mode 
of  origin,  and  it  would  seem  that  this  fact  alone  must 
serve  to  condemn  the  theory  to  some  extent.  Had  there 
been  any  indications  of  its  application  in  a  practical 
way,  it  seems  reasonable  to  suppose  that  such  application 
would  have  been  noted  and  developed  at  least  theoreti- 
cally long  ago. 

The  two  promulgators  of  the  Inorganic  Theory  may 
be  said  to  be  the  distinguished  French  chemist,  Berthe- 
lot,  and  the  brilliant  Russian  chemist,  Mendeljieff. 
Berthelot  did  his  work  and  advanced  his  ideas  in  1866. 
He  assumed  that  the  alkali  metals,  potassium  and  so- 
dium, existing  uncombined  and  at  high  temperatures  in 
the  interior  of  the  earth,  produced  a  series  of  hydrocar- 
bons whenever  underground  waters,  carrying  carbon  in 
solution,  found  access  to  them.  His  idea  was  that  the 
production  of  petroleum  and  natural  gas  would  contin- 
uously take  place  at  from  moderate  to  great  depths 
within  the  earth's  crust,  in  the  entire  absence  of  organic 
substances.  Mendeljieff,  assuming  a  somewhat  parallel 
tho  an  entirely  different  conception,  assumed  the  inte- 
rior of  the  earth  to  be  composed  of  great  masses  of 
metallic  carbides  and  iron  at  a  high  temperature.  His 
theory  conceived  the  production  of  metal  oxides  and  hy- 
drocarbons upon  the  contact  of  water  with  these  afore- 
named substances.  His  theory,  like  Berthelot 's,  was  one 
which  allowed  the  assumption  of  a  more  or  less  contin- 
uous small  production  of  petroleum  and  natural  gas  as 
long  as  the  supply  of  metallic  carbides  was  available. 

Both  of  these  theories  presupposed  the  continual 
generation  of  the  hydrocarbons  constituting  the  petro- 
leum and  natural  gas  as  long  as  the  source  substances 


46  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

remained,  a  fact  which  has  never  been  substantiated  by 
the  history  of  producing  fields.  Advocates  of  the  inor- 
ganic theory  today  claim  that  the  generation  of  these 
hydrocarbons  requires  a  much  greater  length  of  time 
than  that  which  has  been  allotted  by  the  practical  ob- 
server of  oil  and  gas  fields.  They  point,  with  a  measure 
of  pride,  to  the  somewhat  puzzling  conditions  of  occur- 
rence of  petroleum  and  natural  gas  in  Mexico  and  por- 
tions of  the  Gulf  Coastal  Plain  of  the  United  States. 
While  it  is  true  that  in  these  localities  associated  with 
the  oil  and  gas  are  igneous  formations,  hot  water,  sulphur 
and  salt,  and  it  is  also  a  fact  that  we  do  not  today1 
thoroly  understand  the  full  geologic  conditions  of  the 
actual  details  of  their  occurrence  in  these  fields,  it  may 
be  pointed  out  that  the  reference  to  these  fields  as  a  proof 
of  the  inorganic  theory  is  entirely  unacceptable  for 
world-wide  conditions  do  not  'parallel  this  cited  mode"  of 
occurrence. 

THE  ORGANIC  THEORY. 

Many  theories  have  been  advanced  by  both  chemists 
and  geologists,  accounting  for  the  origin  and  source  of 
petroleum  and  natural  gas  on  an  organic  basis.  Per- 
haps one  of  the  first  men  to  make  this  suggestion  was 
von  Buch,  who  in  1803  offered  the  suggestion  that  the 
bituminous  content  of  the  Liassic  shales  of  Wurttemburg 
came  from  an  animal  and  vegetable  source.  On  the  ba- 
sis of  general  conditions,  it  is  assumed  that  since  most 
of  the  petroleum  of  the  world  is  derived  from  marine 
sediments,  the  organisms  producing  hydrocarbons  were 
also  of  marine  origin.  A  number  of  chemical  tests  have 
been  made  by  chemists  of  ability,  which  go  to  show  the 
possibility  of  this  mode  of  origin. 

In  1865  Warren  and  Storer  in  distilling  a  fish  oil 
showed  that  it  could  be  broken  up  into  hydrocarbon  con- 
stituents parallel  to  petroleum  and  natural  gas.  Up  to 
the  present,  the  chemical  side  of  the  organic  theory  has 
come  thru  with  its  case  clear.  Geologists  for  the  most 
part  have  favored  this  theory,  generally  because  they 
have  found  the  oil  associated  in  sediments  which  con- 
tain large  numbers  of  marine  fossils.  Unfortunately, 
however,  no  large  degree  of  real  or  positive  proof  has 


PETROLEUM  AND  NATURAL  GAS  47 

ever  been  obtained  by  the  geologists  to  show  conclusively 
that  this  was  the  method  of  occurrence. 

In  the  Appalacian  oil  field  of  the  Eastern  United 
States,  of  which  Kentucky  forms  the  southwest  portion, 
the  oil  and  gas  sands  are  shown,  imbedded  within  large 
masses  of  shale.  This  is  especially  true  in  the  Devonian 
system,  but  is  also  the  case  in  the  Mississippian  and  the 
Pennsylvanian.  The  question  arises,  if  the  oil  found  its 
source  in  the  shales,  how  did  it  get  into  the  sands  or  the 
limestone  imbedded  within  the  shale?  This  will  be  set- 
tled in  another  place.  The  fact  remains  that  the  geolo- 
gists and  chemists  have  proven  that  the  shales  do  at  the 
present  time  contain  large  amounts  of  undistilled  (thru 
natural  processes)  hydrocarbons,  and  whatever  may 
have  become  of  the  myriad  of  fossiliferous  tests  or  casts 
of  the  producing  organisms  really  makes  very  little  dif- 
ference. 

However,  if  concrete  evidence  is  desired,  at  least 
one  admirable  instance  of  the  occurrence  of  oil  in  ex- 
tremely fossiliferous  bodies  may  be  cited.  In  Southern 
California  the  oil  occurs  in  a  series  of  diatomaceous 
shales  of  from  1,000  to  2,500  feet  in  thickness.  These 
diatomaceous  shales  do  not  now  contain  oil,  but  the  in- 
tervening sandstones  do,  acting  as  reservoirs  for  the 
accumulated  petroleums.  In  this  field,  at  least,  the  asso- 
ciation of  the  oil  with  these  diatomaceous  formations 
has  been  so  clearly  interpreted  and  explained  that  it  is 
now  serving  as  a  reliable  guide  in  the  location  of  new 
oil  and  gas  fields.  While  this  particular  occurrence  may 
be  looked  upon  as  a  practical  proof  of  the  organic  animal 
theory  of  origin,  at  least  for  this  particular  field,  it  may 
not  be  too  broad  a  suggestion  to  refer  the  same  possibility 
to  the  great  oil  shales  of  Colorado  and  Utah  and  some  of 
the  other  western  states.  It  may,  however,  be  noted  that 
proof  as  definite  as  that  found  in  Lower  California  is 
still  lacking  for  these  other  localities. 

A  recent  renewal  of  interest  in  the  optical  properties 
of  petroleum  has  definitely  shown  that  the  rotation  of  the 
polarized  ray  which  is  produced  by  petroleum  is  parallel 
to,  if  not  exactly  the  same  as  that  of  cholesterol  from 
animal  fats  and  phytosterol  from  vegetable  fats.  It  is 
i»ow  generally  agreed  that  the  optical  activity  of  petrol- 
eum is  due  to  these  two  substances,  cholesterol  and  phyto- 


48  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES   OF  KENTUCKY 

sterol.  This  final  and  rather  conclusive  evidence  leads, 
the  modern  observer  to  assume  that  the  great  majority 
of  mineral  oils  and  gases  are  derived  during  long  periods 
of  time,  and  at  rather  low  temperatures  from  the  decom- 
position of  the  fatty  substances  of  plants  and  animals. 
Under  such  an  hypothesis,  the  nitrogenous  properties  of 
both  the  plants  and  the  animals  would  automatically  be 
removed  by  the  action  of  bacteria  soon  after  the  death 
of  the  organism.  While  it  may  be  supposed  that  the 
terrestrial  fauna  and  flora  may  have  contributed  some- 
what to  the  origin  of  petroleum  and  natural  gas,  it  must, 
on  that  basis  of  the  actual  sources  of  these  hydrocarbons, 
be  assumed  that  the  greatest  agency  of  formation  had 
been  marine  life,  animal  and  vegetable. 

To  sum  up  then:  (a)  The  evidence  now  afforded 
seems  to  favor  the  animal  origin  of  petroleum  and  natural 
gas.  (b)  It  is  undoubtedly  true  that  the  marine  plants 
have  contributed  a  large  portion  of  the  fatty  or  oily  ma- 
terial, (c)  Geologic  and  optical  proofs  and  evidences  are, 
for  the  most  part,  decidedly  opposed  to  the  inorganic 
origin  of  petroleum,  but  this  conclusion  does  not  presup- 
pose the  idea  that  there  may  not  be  some  relation  be- 
tween the  igneous  bodies  of  some  of  the  oil  fields  and  the 
large  accumulatons  of  petroleum  and  natural  gas  asso- 
ciated with  them. 

MOVEMENT  OF  OIL  THRU  THE  EOCKS,  AND 
CONDITIONS  OF  ACCUMULATION. 

From  the  standpoint  of  a  practical  producer,  it  is 
somewhat  immaterial  as  to  just  what  has  been  the  actual 
source  of  formation  of  the  oil  and  gas  hydrocarbons.  All 
competent  writers  on  the  subject  are  agreed  that  what- 
ever the  source  may  have  been,  the  oils  are  not  now  al- 
ways found  in  the  same  place  in  the  rocks  in  which  they 
were  originally  assembled.  This  statement  presupposes 
migration  of  both  petroleum  and  natural  gas,  a  very 
demonstrable  fact.  Since  oil  and  gas  have  moved  from 
their  original  positions,  it  is  of  importance  to  the  prac- 
tical man  to.  understand  the  conditions  necessary  for  such 
movement,  and  to  be  able  to  interpret  those  specific  con- 
ditions in  the  geologic  formations  which  have  brought 
about  the  migration  and  the  accumulation  into  oil  and  gas 


PETROLEUM  AND  NATURAL  GAS  49 

pools.    As  a  general  thing,  we  should  understand  that 
migration  has  of  course  preceded  accumulation. 

There  are  three  forces  which  are  generally  considered 
effective  under  most  conditions  in  producing  the  migra- 
tion of  oil  and  gas  in  underground  sedimentary  strata. 
These  are:  (a)  gravity,  (b)  capillary  attraction,  (c)  dif- 
ference in  specific  gravity  of  gas,  oil  and  water.  Taking 


DIAGRAMS  ILLUSTRATING  THEORETICAL  POROSITY 
A — Maximum  pore  space,  large  spheres;  B — Maximum  pore  space, 
small  spheres;   C — Minimum  pore  space,  large  spheres;  D — Minimum 
pore  space,  small  spheres. 

these  up  separately,  oil  and  gas,  in  the  rocks  of  the  earth's 
crust  are,  as  we  might  suppose,  affected  by  the  force  of 
gravity  like  all  other  substances.  But  as  the  force  of  grav- 
ity on  oil  and  gas  in  a  greatly  disseminated  condition  may! 
be  understood  to  be  very  weak,  it  must  be  assumed  that 
movement  could  only  be  brought  about  by  this  force  act- 
ing separately  and  through  a  long  period  of  time.  The 
lithologic  conditions  of  the  containing  strata,  would  also 
necessarily  be  somewhat  special  in  character,  that  is,  dry 
and  porous.  Under  such  conditions,  the  migration  of  oil, 
obeying  the  law  of  gravity,  would  be  toward  the  center  of 
the  earth,  and  the  migration  of  gas,  because  of  its  ex- 
treme lightness,  if  for  no  other  reason,  would  be  chiefly  in 
the  opposite  direction. 

Because  of  the  fact  that  dry,  open  strata  in 
which  petroleums  were  originally  contained  are  prob- 
ably not  widely  extensive  throughout  the  earth,  it 
may  be  assumed  with  a  considerable  degree  of  certainty, 
that  gravitation  operating  separately  has  not  been  very 


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OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 


important  as  a  factor  in  the  movement  of  petroleum  and 
natural  gas.  The  second  of  the  forces  tending  to  produce 
migration,  capillary  attraction,  is  considered  to  have 
been  and  to  be  much  greater  than  the  power  of  gravity. 
Many  small  experiments  could  be  cited  to  substantiate 


DIAGRAMATIC   SECTION  OF  A  TERRACE  STRUCTURE 
Insufficient  water  and  low  porosity  are  assumed. 

this  statement.  However,  capillary  attraction,  like  grav- 
ity, will  operate  only,  to  any  marked  extent,  in  rocks  of 
a  special  lithologic  character,  that  is,  such  rocks  as  have 
»  low  degree  of  porosity  expressed  thru  a  large  number 
of  minute  pores  and  interspaces;  and  such  rocks  as  are' 
essentially  dry.  Since,  however,  capillary  attraction  is 
somewhat  nullified  by  the  presence  of  water,  we  again  find 
that  the  amount  of  petroleums  and  natural  gases  which 
has  been  moved  by  this  force,  acting  separately,  is  prob- 
ably relatively  rather  small. 


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61 


The  last  named  of  the  principal  forces  influencing 
the  migration  of  petroleum  and  natural  gas,  the  differ- 
ence of  specific  gravity  of  gas,  oil  and  water,  is  perhaps 
the  greatest,  most  widespread  and  most  universally  im- 
portant factor  operating  in  this  connection.  This  is  read- 


DIAGRAMS    ILLUSTRATING   ACTUAL   POROSITY. 

E — Maximum  pore  space,  large  sand  grains;  F — Maximum  pore 
space,  small  sand  grains;  G — 'Lack  of  pore  s,pace  in  sandstone  with 
tightly  cemented  sand  grains;  H — Reproduction  of  actual  conditions 
of  small  interlocking  cavities  in  the  Onondaga  (Corniferous)  lime- 
stone as  found  in  the  Estill-Lee-Powell-Wolfe,  and  the  Allen-Barren- 
Warren  Fields.  This  last  kind  of  porosity  may  be  due  to  either  solu- 
tion or  dolomitization  or  both. 

ily  understood  to  be  the  case,  because  it  is  now  known 
thru  a  great  volume  of  experimental  drilling  informa- 
tion that  the  dry  rock  of  high  or  low  porosity  is  the  very 
special  rather  than  the  general  case.  Since  most  strata 
containing  petroleum  and  natural  gas  are  water-filled,  in 
part  at  least,  we  now  come  to  a  consideration  of  those 
.principles  of  movement  which  must  base  themselves 
upon  the  relative  specific  gravities  of  the  three  sub- 
stances considered,  gas,  oil  and  water. 

In  the  most  simple  condition,  that  of  an  undeformed 
(essentially  flat)  horizon,  the  water  would  be  found  oc- 
cupying the  lower  part  of  the1  strata.  Resting  directly 
upon  the  water  saturated  portion  would  be  found  a  layer 
of  oil,  and  upon  this,  filling  completely  the  remaining 
s"pace,  the  stratum  would  be  the  natural  gas.  Under 
such  conditions,  the  movement  of  the  oil  and  gas  would 
be  relativelv  small  since  it  would  be  within  the  thickness 


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OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 


of  the  strata  itself  and  were  the  movement  not  to  pro- 
ceed any  further  than  this,  it  is  very  probable  there  would 
be  very  few  accumulations  of  oil  and  gas  in  strictly  com- 
mercial quantities.  It  therefore  becomes  necessary  to 
consider  the  interpretation  of  widespread  specialized 
conditions  of  structure,  different  from  the  normal  and 
original,  and  such  structures  will  of  course  be  the  folds 
in  the  rock  series.  Along  the  belts  of  such  folds,  then, 
tne  movement  will  at  once  be  seen  to  have  been  greatly 
increased,  that  is,  the  tendency  will  have  been  for  the 
entire  water  content  to  arrange  itself  in  the  lowest  posi- 
tion of  the  structure  of  any  of  the  porous  formations, 
which  would,  of  course,  be  the  lowest  part  of  the  fold. 
In  moving  down  to  this  location,  the  waters  must  neces- 
sarily compete  with  the  oil  and  gas  indigenous  at  each 


-ic  +  ion  Legend 

Oil  Body 

Gas   Body  j 


aph  ic    Legend 
F^^l    Jhalo 

/«,„«- x  Shale: 
t-fi-1    Jhaly  Limes+o 


DIAGRAMATIC  SECTION  OF  DOME  OR  ANTICLINAL  STRUCTURE 
Adequate  water  and  high  porosity  are  assumed. 


PETROLEUM  AND  NATURAL  GAS 


63 


and  every  point  of  contact,  and  should  therefore  be  con- 
sidered generally  successful  in  displacing  them  and 
moving  them  to  higher  locations  on  the  folded 
structure.  The  position  of  the  water  and  the  oil 
and  gas  would  then  be  entirely  dependent  upon 
the  particular  quantities  of  oil  and  gas  and  water 
contained  in  the  folded  strata.  With  the  water 
conditions  prolific,  the  oil  might  be  expected  to  be  found 
relatively  high  on  the  structure,  if  not  at  the  very  high- 
est place,  with  the  gas  above  it  confined  into  a  very 
small  space  and  under  very  great  pressure.  Were  there  to 
be  but  a  small  amount  of  water  in  the  strata,  we  might 
expect  to  find  the  oil  belt  lying  much  further  down  on 
the  fold,  again  at  the  top  of  the  water,  and  the  interven- 


DIAGRAMATIC  SECTION  OF  A  SYNCLINAL  STRUCTURE 

The  upper  sands  are  assumed  to  be  essentially  without  water,  the 
lower  ones  partly  saturated.    Equivalent  degrees  of  porosity  obtain. 


54  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES   OF  KENTUCKY 

ing  space,  relatively  great  perhaps,  would  tend  to  be- 
come entirely  filled  with  gas  under  a  rather  high  regular 
pressure.  In  case  of  a  practical  absence  of  water  in  the 
oil  production  horizon,  the  oil  belt  would  be — theoretically 
at  least — at  the  lowest  point  of  the  structure  or  in  the 
syncline  proper.  Gas  under  relatively  little  pressure 
would  be  found  at  all  higher  points.  To  such  a  sequence 
of  conditions  there  may  be  added  the  special  conditions 
of  channel  deposits  such  as  are  widespread  in  Kentucky. 
These  deposits  filling  the  winding  courses  of  old  semi- 
marine  or  other  currents  are  generally  of  an  elongated 
and  rather  narrow  configuration.  In  this  State  one  of  the 
best  examples  of  this  sort  of  deposit  is  found  at  the  line 
of  unconformity  of  the  Mauch  Chunk  and  the  overlying 


DIAGRAMATIC    SECTION    IN    EASTERN    KENTUCKY 
The  structure  is  anticlinal  and  symmetrical,  but  the  location  of  the 
oil,  gas,  and  water  is  different  in  the  Mauch  Chunk  and  Onandaga. 


PETROLEUM  AND  NATURAL  GAS  55 

Pottsville.  At  this  stratigraphic  level  the  irregularity 
is  very  great  especially  in  the  Eastern  and  Western 
Kentucky  Coal  Fields. 

Sand  deposits  are  generally  the  ones  found  filling 
old  channels  in  shales  and  limes,  and  when  these  de- 
posits are  slightly  tilted,  as  they  almost  invariably  are, 
it  will  be  seen  that  the  extension  of  the  "pay"  sand 
thereby  developed  will  be  one  that  must  necessarily  be 
irregular  beyond  description.  This  character  of  oil  and 
gas  sand  is  the  one  most  difficult  for  geologists  and  oil 
operators  to  interpret.  It  produces  what  is  commonly 
designated  as  a  "Stray"  and  when  'production  is  defi- 
nitely sought  in  such  a  horizon  an  extreme  amount  of 
hazard  is  introduced  into  prospecting.  Many  times 
definite  channel  deposits  are  referred  to  as  lenses  be- 
cause of  the  lack  of  knowledge  of  their  true  character. 
There  is  no  way  that  a  channel  deposit  "pay"  sand  can 
be  worked  out  accuratey  by  using  surface  geology. 

In  Kentucky  the  principal  oil  producing  horizon  to 
date  has  been  the  Onondaga  or  Corniferous  Limestone, 
which  in  many  places  is  quite  porous,  thereby  differing 
from  most  limestones  under  cover.  Since  the  "pay" 
horizon  is  a  limestone,  special  conditions  are  introduced 
respecting  accumulation  that  do  not  obtain  in  the  typical 
silicious  "pay"  sand.  The  oil  and  gas  that  occur  in  the 
Onondaga  Limestone  may  not  be  regarded  as  entirely 
indigenous  to  this  formation.  It  is  practically  a  certain- 
ty that  a  great  deal  of  it  comes  from  other  and  lower 
horizons.  These  are  in  Silurian  and  possibly  the  upper- 
most Ordovician.  The  Back  shale  of  the  Devonian 
which  overlies  the  Onondaga  Limestone  must  be  ex- 
cluded as  the  indigenous  source  of  the  principal  part  of 
the  oil  found  in  the  Onondaga  Limestone  for  many  rea- 
sons, good  reasons  which  have  already  been  advanced.* 
Minor  faulting,  fissuring,  and  jointing  are  a  number  of 
the  factors  in  the  Devonian  and  underlying  limestones 
that  undoubtedly  have  contributed,  without  surface  indi- 
cation, to  the  location  of  the  many  of  the  most  important 
oil  pools  in  the  Onondaga  Limestone  of  Kentucky. 


Jillson,  W.  R.,  The  new  Oil  and  Gas  Pools  of  Allen  County.     Dept.  Geol. 
and  Forestry,   Series  V,  Vol.   I,  No.  2,  July,   1919. 


CHAPTER  IV. 


THE  COMMERCIAL  PRODUCTION 

.OF  OIL  AND  GAS. 

Contrary  to  a  somewhat  widespread  opinion,  the 
business  of  oil  and  gas  production  in  its  modern  devel- 
opment is  a  highly  complicated  industry.  There  are 
many  features,  small  apparently  in  themselves,  which 
make  for  success  or  failure  in  every  oil  venture.  Realiz- 
ing the  importance  of  detail,  all  of  the  large  producing 
companies  in  the  United  States  are  thoroughly  organized 
for  the  specific  purpose  of  carrying  out  this  kind  of 
iield  and  office  work.  In  the  smaller  producing  oil  com- 
panies where  leased  property  has  to  be  examined  or  de- 


a  n  a  Ti  on 


O  6"        O    Location 

Q    Dry          Q    J)r,//,n^ 


Geologic    Structural    Map — Productive   Anticline    and    Non-Productive 
Syncline. 
56 


COMMERCIAL  PRODUCTION  OIL  AND  GAS 


57 


veloped,  it  frequently  becomes  the  duty  of  one  "all 
around  field  man"  to  check  up  and  take  care  of  the 
many  details  of  the  operation. 

It  is  now  generally  recognized  throughout  the  United 
States,  that  the  safest  way  to  open  up  a  new  oil  pool  is  to 
secure  a  favorable  structure  map  by  a  reputable  geolo- 
gist on  undeveloped  territory.  However,  in  Kentucky, 
this  is  not  always  possible,  due  to  the  fact  that  large 
portions  of  the  state  cannot  be  mapped  accurately  in 
advance  of  the  drill.  In  this  state,  therefore,  the  pro- 
cedure is  generally  to  first  acquire  leases  and  then  to 
work  out  the  geologic  structure  if  possible.  In  any  event 
no  property  should  ever  be  started  on  its  developmental 


A  PROSPECTING  DRILLING. 

Isolated  rig  and  tank  in  the  Ross  Creek,  Estill  County,  field 
"feeling  out"  new  production  areas.  Photo  by  R.  L.  McClure,  March, 
1919. 


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OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES   OF  KENTUCKY 


career  until  an  oil    and    gas    geologist    of    reputation 
lias  made  a  report  on  it. 

When  the  most  favorable  locations  on  any  property 
or  group  of  properties  have  been  determined,  contracts 
are  let  and  drilling  rigs  are  brought  in  for  the  purpose 
of  prospecting.  Initial  wells  may  be  producers  or  may 
be  dry.  When  production  is  secured  arrangement  must 
be  made  at  once  to  store  or  to  dispose  of  the  oil,  since 
the  proven  production  of  any  property,  though  it  in- 
creases the  value  of  the  same,  does  not  become  of  useful 
economic  value,  until  it  is  placed  upon  the  market.  In 
Kentucky,  gas  wells  when  located  close  to  a  trunk  pipe 
line,  are  considered  an  asset,  but  when  not  located  near  a 
trunk  line,  are  considered  a  liability.  Any  oil  well  pro- 
ducing five  or  more  barrels  a  day  from  a  "pay"  sand  not 
over  500  feet  deep,  wherever  located,  is  considered  a  dis-.^ 


Geologic  Structural  Map — A  Closed  Anticline  or  Dome. 


COMMERCIAL  PRODUCTION  OIL  AND  GAS  59 

tinct  asset.  Generally  speaking  deeper  "pay"  sands  re- 
quire corresponding  increased  production  to  be  commer- 
cially important. 

In  the  event  of  striking  oil  or  gas  on  any  property, 
the  first  thing  generally  done  by  the  operator  is  to 
buy  all  the  available  leases  close  to  his  production.  If  he 
has  a  geological  map  of  the  structure  on  which  he  has 
drilled,  he  will  attempt  to  follow  the  oil  horizon  on  that 
structure.  In  most  cases  following  the  oil  strike,  there  is 
a  wild  scramble  for  all  the  available  adjacent  property. 

It  is  in  rushes  of  this  kind  that  many  inexperienced 
would  be  oil  operators  purchase  property  which  can 
never  be  made  to  produce.  Such  properties  are  quickly 
valuated  at  many  times  their  real  worth  and  become  an 
important  factor  of  exchange  among  lease  manipulators. 
Eventually  these  undesirable  properties,  though  rela- 
tively close  to  the  new  production,  lead  their  owners  into 
failure.  While  it  is  true  that  many  important  producing 
pools  in  Kentucky  as  well  as  in  other  parts  of  this  country 
have  been  located  solely  by  the  aid  of  geologists,  it  is 
no  discredit  to  the  men  of  that  profession  to  say  that- 
some  of  the  most  important  pools  in  this  country  have 
been  located  entirely  by  "wild  cat"  and  unscientific 
drilling.  It  should  however  be  noted  as  a  fact  of  some  im- 
portance, that  at  the  present  time,  there  are  no  large  pro- 
ducing oil  companies  in  the  United  States,  engaged  in 
the  development  of  unproven  territory,  that  are  not  op- 
crating  upon  geological  advice.  The  single  reason  for 
this  remarkable  state  of  affairs  is,  that  while  the  oil  and 
gas  geologist  can  not  positively  say  that  oil  and  gas 
underlies  any  individual  property,  he  can  nevetheless 
(1)  keep  his  clients  from  drilling  a  large  number  of 
worthless  dry  holes,  (2)  save  them  large  expense  on  the 
drilling,  which  they  do  undertake,  and  (3)  increase  their 
chances  of  ultimate  success. 

In  Kentucky  there  are  no  uniform  rules  in  the  mat- 
ter of  lease  writing.  Many  forms  of  leases  have  been 
used,  and  the  practice  common  in  one  locality,  generally 
does  not  hold  for  another.  The  leases  are,  however,  gen- 
erally for  a  term  of  from  five  to  ten  years,  with  rentals, 
per  acre,  per  year,  of  from  ten  cents  to  one  dollar.  In 
any  undeveloped  territory  the  first  rentals,  are  paid  in 


60 


OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES   OF  KENTUCKY 


F  «*b/T^/"y<''/'V/'/<?>Toi/V 

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+/mv+  +S&-/T  £?6or£  /rr+at7j-&4  /era/. 


Geologic  Structural  Map — A  Terrace 

advance.  The  leasing  contract  is  always  a  private  trans- 
action. In  developed  territory  a  bonus  is  generally  paid 
the  land  owner,  plus  the  rentals.  This  bonus  may  be 
from  one  to  fifty  dollars  per  acre,  depending  entirely 
upon  the  known  or  the  estimated  value  of  the  neighbor- 
ing production.  A  common  and  good  form  of  oil  and 
gas  lease  is  given  in  the  Appendix  of  this  volume.  With 
it  are  attached  forms,  (1)  for  the  deeding  of  Oil  and 
Gas,  (2)  agreement  for  the  sale  of  all  mineral  rights, 
and  (3)  the  general  form  of  a  separate  oil  and  gas  as- 
signment of  lease. 

MANAGEMENT  OF  PROPERTIES. 

^The   management    of    oil    properties    in    Kentucky 

varies  -according  to  the  special  conditions,  found  in  the 

particular  field  of  operation.    The    problems    involved 

are:  (1)  The  method  of  most  practical  and  efficient  re- 


COMMERCIAL  PRODUCTION  OIL  AND  GAS 


covery  of  the  oil  and  gas.  (2)  The  certain  decline  from 
the  initial  (flush)  production.  (3)  The  method  of  market- 
ing the  oil  and  gas  produced. 

In  Kentucky  most  of  the  oil  is  secured  by  the  pump- 
ing of  the  well.  To  the  pump  jacks  steel  lines  are  con- 
nected with  a  central  pumping  house,  which  provides 
the  power  necessary.  A  few  wells  in  this  State  during 
their  early  life  history  fall  into  the  class  which  is  known 
as  "flowing  wells."  These  wells  bring  their  oil  to  the 
surface  without  any  mechanical  assistance.  Most  flowing 
wells  later  in  their  life  history  go  on  the  pump  due  to 
the  decline  in  the  gas  and  water  pressures,  which  are 
natural  forces  that  force  the  oil  to  the  surface.  In  plac- 
ing the  well  on  the  pump  in  some  cases  in  Eastern  Ken- 
tucky, where  the  standard  wooden  built  derricks  were 
used  for  drilling  purposes,  the  derrick  is  allowed  to 


PORTABLE  OIL  DRILLING  RIG. 

This  is  a  Sparta  No.  30,  a  very  improved  and  up-to-date  tractor 
drilling  machine.  Other  portable  rigs,  are  the  Parkersburg,  Star,  Arm- 
strong, Keystone,  Clipper  and  National  machines. 


62  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES   OF  KENTUCKY 

stand  over  the  well,  and  the.  well  is  pumped  on  the  beam 
of  the  drilling  rig.  On  the  western  rim  of  the  Eastern 
Kentucky  Oil  Field,  and  in  the  south-central  portion  of 
Kentucky  where  portable  rigs  such  as  the  National,  Park- 
orsburg,  Keystone,  Sparta,  Clipper,  Armstrong  and  Star 
are  used,  the  drilling  outfit  is  moved  away  at  once  and  the 
separate  pump  jack  is  installed. 


AMOUNT   OF   PEODUCTION   AND   DECLINE    OF 
WELLS 

One  of  the  most  important  problems  attending  the 
operation  of  any  oil  property  is  that  concerned  with  the 
estimation  of  its  commercial  life.  It  is  impossible  to  de- 
termine with  any  degree  of  accuracy  the  life  of  any  in- 
dividual oil  well.  It  is  not  impossible,  however,  to  figure 
the  history  of  a  certain  group  of  wells  providing  figures 
of  known  production  to  determine  the  life  of  the  same 
group  of  wells  are  available.  At  the  same  time  it  is  pos- 
sible to  estimate  the  amount  of  production  which  will 
eventualy  be  taken  from  this  group  of  wells,  but  it  is 
not  possible  in  any  case  with  any  amount  of  detailed  fig- 
ures to  determine  exactly  the  amount  of  oil  which  may  be 
under  any  property. 

In  determining  the  life  of  a  property  the  known 
production  data  is  plotted  in  the  form  of  a  curve.  Such 
curves  always  show  minor  irregularities  due  to  the  special 
field  conditions  or  interrupted  production.  A  small  curve 
redrawn  over  such  an  irregular  line  is  the  one  which  is 
finally  adopted.  The  top  production  of  any  field  is  never 
reached  as  long  as  the  new  and  old  production  combined 
show  an  ascending  curve.  When  the  new  production  de- 
veloped in  a  field  does  not  balance  the  decline  in  the  old 
production,  the  total  production  of  that  field  begins  to 
show  a  loss.  Sometimes  the  condition  is  only  temporary. 
When  it  is  continued  indefinitely,  however,  then  that 
field  from  the  time  of  its  highest  production  may  be  said 
to  be  on  the  decline.  The  decline  in  any  field  is  due  to 
three  causes.  (1)  Actual  reduced  amount  of  oil  available. 
(2)  Reduction  of  gas  pressure.  (3)  Flooding  of  the  out- 
lying portions  of  the  pool  by  salt  and  fresh  water. 


COMMERCIAL  PRODUCTION  OIL  AND  GAS  63 

MARKETING  KENTUCKY  OIL  AND  GAS 

As  soon  as  oil  has  been  brought  to  the  surface,  it  is 
necessary  to  store  it  in  tanks  if  pipe  line  accommoda- 
tions are  not  available.  If  pipe  line  connections  are  im- 
mediately available  with  refineries,  tank  car  or  river 
barge,  transportation  companies,  these  must  be  estab- 


DEVELOPMENT  ON  ROSS  CREEK. 

View  on  the  J.  F.  Harris  farm,  three  and  one-half  miles  from 
Evelyn.  Producing  property  of  Mason  &  Dixon  Oil  Company.  Photo 
by  R.  L.  McClure,  March,  1919. 


64  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES   OF  KENTUCKY 

lished.  Storage  tanks  are  generally  of  the  two  hundred 
and  fifty  barrel  wooden  or  the  five  hundred  barrel 
steel  type.  There  are  in  Kentucky  no  real  large 
tanks,  except  at  the  refineries  at  Louisville.  The  largest 
steel  tank  used  in  the  Mid-Continent  Field  has  a  capacity 
of  fifty-five  thousand  barrels.  There  are,  however,  many 
twenty  thousand  barrel  tanks,  and  ten  thousand  barrel 
tanks  are  common.  Kecently  new  designs  of  concrete 
tanks  have  been  placed  on  the  market  by  a  large  con- 
tracting concern.  These  are  being  used  with  success  in 
a  number  of  places  in  the  Mid-Continent  and  Texas  fields, 
due  to  high  price  of  the  steel  tanks,  which  frequently  cost 
from  ten  to  forty  thousand  dollars  apiece. 

In  Kentucky  the  oil  and  gas  pipe  lines  -nay  be 
divided  into  two  classes.  The  principal  oil  transportation 
pipe  line,  is  that  operated  by  Cumberland  Pipe  Line 
Company,  which  serves  the  Wayne  County  and  Beaver 
Creek  Field  in  the  southern  and  eastern  parts  of  the 
State,  the  Estill,  Lee,  Powell,  Wolfe,  and  Morgan  Fields 
in  the  central-eastern  section.  The  oil  in  Allen  and  War- 
ren counties  is  served  by  the  Indian  Pipe  Line,  the  Ameri- 
can Pipe  Line  and  the  Smith's  Grove  Pipe  Line.  The 
;°as  production  of  Kentucky  is  served  by  two  companies, 
that  of  the  Louisville  Gas  &  Electric  Company  and  the 
Central  Kentucky  Natural  Gas  Company.  Both  of  these 
lines  extend  from  Inez  in  Martin  County  to  Central  Ken- 
tucky, the  Louisville  Gas  and  Electric  Company  line 
r-rossins:  this  section  of  the  state  and  terminating  at 
Louisville,  Kentucky.  Recently  preparations  have  been 
started  to  connect  the  Beaver  Creek  Gas  Field  in  Floyd 
Countv  with  the  Louisville  Gas  &  Electric  Company 
pipe  line  north  of  Paintsville.  This  line  will  be  extended 
by  the  Penedgrade  Oil  and  Gas  Company.  Within  gen- 
eral limitations  it  mav  be  said  that  the  gns  pipe  line 
connections  in  Kentucky  are  thoroughly  inadequate, 
there  being  a  very  large  amount  of  unmeasured  index 
gas  scattered  throughout  the  Eastern  Kentucky  Coal 
Fields.  It  is  a  definite,  though  a  distinct,  futurity  which 
promises  the  nrobable  commercialization  of  all  the  gas 
which  Kentucky  can  produce.  A  very  small  portion  of 
the  natural  gas  now  available  is  at  present  being  used  for 
caseing  head  gas,  gasoline  and  carbon  black  production. 


CHAPTER  V. 


STRATIGRAPHY    AND    EVALUATION    OF    KEN- 
TUCKY OIL  AND  GAS  SANDS 

THE  ORDOVICIAN  SYSTEM 
THE  CALCIFEEOUS  GROUP 

In  Kentucky  the  lowest  sediments  stratigraphically 
about  which  anything  is  definitely  known,  are  those  which 
have  been  referred  in  a  group  to  the  "Calciferous."* 
Their  basal  position  in  the  column  establishes  them  as 
the  oldest  rocks  in  the  State,  and  for  this  reason  they 
command  more  than  passing  attention.  Unexposed  in 
outcro'p  at  any  point  within  the  boundary  of  Kentucky, 
all  information  concerning  them  is  based  upon  the  ex- 
aminations of  a  number  of  drillings  made  at  various 
points  in  or  close  to  the  central  Blue  Grass  Section. 
Further  studies,  which  are  now  being  made  by  the  author, 
of  the  log  samples  of  the  deep  well  drilling  south  of 
Nicholasville  in  Jessamine  County  nearly  on  the  apex  of 
the  Lexington  dome  of  the  Cincinnati  arch,  point  to  the 
conclusion  that  here  may  exist  under  the  broad  title  of 
"Calciferous"  the  greater  part,  or  perhaps  the  complete 
correlatives,  of  the  Fort  Cassion  and  Beekmantown 
epochs  of  the  Canadian.  Following  the  completion  of  this 
deep  drilling  at  Nicholasville,  such  determinations  as 
are  made  will  be  presented  in  a  separate  paper.  The 
position  and  development  of  the  "Calciferous"  sedi- 
ments as  now  known  are  as  follows : 


System 

Series 

Sand 

Lithology    in    Order 

Thickness 
in    Feet 

Lower   Ordovician 

Canadian 

"Calciferous" 

Hard  sandstone 
Sandy  limestone 

700-1000? 

*A11  names  of  rock  formations  accepted  and  commonly  used  as  drill- 
ing terms  will  be  quoted  in  this  chapter  to  aid  the  reader  in  learning1 
the  Kentucky  oil  sands. 

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Oil  &  Gas— 3 


66  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES   OF  KENTUCKY 

The  uppermost '  *  Calcif  erous ' '  strata  directly  under- 
lie the  well  known  "Trenton"  group.  They  are  generally 
found  to  be  white,  fine  grained,  somewhat  porous,  sili- 
cious,  magnesian  limestones.  Certain  phases  of  the  lime- 
stone in  this  column  are  strongly  oolitic.  Frequently  the 
main  calcareous  body  is  capped  by  very  hard,  compact 
sandstone.  The  lithology  as  determined  by  comparison 
of  a  number  of  well  logs  is  strikingly  similar.  The  sandy 
condition  of  the  true  "Calcif erous"  has  caused  it  to  be 
a  remarkable  source  of  salt  water,  and  the  mineral  wrater 
from  a  number  of  the  deeper  Kentucky  wells  has  been 
referred  to  a  source  in  this  formation. 

The  evidence  presented  by  the  unsuccessful  drilling 
of  the  "Calcif erous"  at  Frankfort,  Louisville,  and  Nich- 
olas ville  is  decidedly  opposed  to  a  consideration  of  this 
formation  or  group  of  formations  in  Central  Kentucky 
as  a  probable  producer  of  commercially  important  oil. 
In  a  well  that  was  drilled  into  the  "  Calcif  erous "  some 
years  ago  near  Elizabethtown  in  Hardin  County  some 
gas  was  secured.  Again  in  the  eastern  part  of  the  State, 
on  White  Oak  Creek  in  Estill  County,  two  old  drillings 
struck  showings,  one  oil  and  one  gas.  The  very  small  quan- 
tity in  all  three  of  these  wells,  combined  with  the  great 
depth— 2,300  feet  in  the  Estill  wells— has  caused  further 
prospecting  of  this  sand  to  be  attempted  only  very  oc- 
casionally. Older  sands  than  the  "  Calcif  erous "  have 
produced  in  the  Appalachian  Field.  That  the  "Calcif er- 
ous" formation  or  formations  contain  a  small  amount 
of  isolated  oil  or  gas  has  been  proven,  but  that  it  will 
ever  be  commercially  important  as  a  producer  of  oil  or 
gas  in  Central  Kentucky  must  be  very  sincerely  doubted. 

THE  TKENTON 

In  the  drilling  vernacular,  the  term,  "Trenton 
Sand,"  famous  for  its  production  of  oil  and  gas  in  Ohio, 
is  expanded  in  Kentucky  somewhat  beyond  its  real 
stratigraphic  limits.  Properly,  the  "Trenton"  is  a  series 
of  gray,  granular,  and  sometimes  crystalline  limestones 
of  about  270  feet  in  thickness,  lying  at  the  top  of  the 
middle  division  of  the  Ordovician.  They  have  their 
typical  exposure  about  the  city  of  Lexington  and  have 
for  this  reason  been  called  the  Lexington  Limestones. 


STRATIGRAPHY  AND  EVALUATION 


67 


The  areal  distribution  of  these  rocks  is  small  in  the 
Blue  Grass.  Following  the  dip  on  the  Cincinnati  anticline 
they  go  under  cover,  and  from  an  elevation  of  about  1,000 
feet  above  sea  level  at  Lexington,  they  drop  to  about 
2,500  feet  below  the  surface  at  Owensboro,  3,500  feet 
near  Ironton,  Ohio,  and  more  than  4,500  feet  below  the 
surface  at  Wheelright  in  Floyd  County,  Kentucky. 


System 

Series 

Sand 

Lithology    in    Order 

Thickness 
in  Feet 

Middle 
Ordovician 

Champlainian 
(Mohawkian) 

"Upper  Trenton" 
"Lexington" 

Gray  Granular 
to  Crystalline 
Limestone. 

270 
600  + 
250 

"Lower    Trenton" 
"High   Bridge" 

Thick   bedded 
and    compact 
Limestone. 

^Knox   Dolomite" 

Light   and 
Dark  Dolomitic 
Limestones. 

Below  the  "Trenton"  proper  or  "Lexington" 
Limestone,  there  are  a  long  series  of  thick  bedded,  com- 
pact limestones,  which  are  called  the  "High  Bridge." 
These  rocks  are  the  lowest  ones  stratigraphically  that 
are  exposed  in  this  State  of  Kentucky.  They  may  be 


KENTUCKY  RIVER  TRENTON  LIMESTONES. 
View  about  one  mile  above  Cummins  Ferry,  looking  down  stream. 
Photo  by  W.  R.  Jillson,  April  12,  1919. 


C8  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

seen  to  good  advantage  in  the  Brooklyn  (High)  Bridge 
section  of  the  Kentucky  river  gorge  in  Woodford  and 
Mercer  counties.  They  continue  vertically  at  this  point 
below  drainage  about  200  feet  to  the  * '  Calcif  erous ' '  which 
they  rest  upon  unconformably.  This  unconformity  is  prin- 
cipally brought  about  by  the  introduction  between  the  top 
of  the  "  Calcif  erous"  and  the  base  of  the  "High  Bridge" 
series  of  a  considerable  thickness  of  a  distinct  forma- 
tion known  as  the  Knox  Dolomite.  This  new  dolomitic 
formation  has  thicknesses,  as  shown  by  a  number  of 
wells,  varying  from  50  to  200  feet,  and  is  composed  of 
light  and  dark  gray  limestones  and  dolomites.  It  extends 
northwardly  from  its  main  body  in  Tennessee  across  the 
Kentucky  line  and  probably  underlies  in  whole  or  in 
part  the  counties  of  Simpson,  Allen,  "Warren,  Barren, 
Metcalfe,  Adair,  Russell,  Pulaski,  Wayne,  Cumberland, 
McCreary,  Clinton  and  Monroe.  In  passing  to  the  north- 
ward this  separate  dolomitic  series  thins  very  rapidly 
and  is  regarded  now  as  entirely  absent  in  the  central 
portion  of  Kentucky. 

Taking  it  as  a  whole,  the  " Trenton"  must  be  re- 
garded as  one  of  the  commercially  important  oil  and  gas 
producing  horizons  in  Kentucky.  It  is  in  fact  one  of  the 
very  earliest  horizons  to  have  shown  production  in  this 
State.  Since  1829,  the  time  the  "Burkesville  Well"  in 
Cumberland  County  was  drilled,  many  thousands  of 
barrels  of  oil  have  been  produced  from  the  various 
"Trenton"  sands.  However,  though  much  may  be  said 
in  favor  of  the  "Trenton"  in  Kentucky,  it  must  always 
be  remembered  that  its  total  production  to  date,  even 
through  nearly  a  century  of  exploitation,  does  not  begin 
to  compare  in  volume  with  that  of  some  of  the  higher  and 
comparatively  recently  discovered  "pay  sands."  More- 
over, the  "Trenton"  has  always  been  prospected  with  a 
great  deal  of  hazard,  and  generally  it  may  be  said  that 
outside  of  a  few  favored  and  somewhat  restricted  local- 
ities in  southern  Kentucky  it  has  been  found  barren  of 
either  oil  or  gas  in  commercial  quantities. 

Wayne  and  McCreary  counties  contain  practically 
the  entire  productive  area  of  the  "Trenton."  The  so- 
called  "Deep  Sand"  of  Wayne  County  is  probably  within 
the  Knox  Dolomite,  the  lowermost  of  the  "Trenton" 


STRATIGRAPHY  AND  EVALUATION 


69 


Group.  Various  pay  sands  of  lesser  depths  than  the 
"Deep  Sands"  found  in  Barren,  Wayne,  Clinton,  Mc- 
Creary  and  Cumberland  counties,  belong  in  what  is 
known  as  the  "High  Bridge"  or  "Lower  Trenton." 
Coming  up  to  shallower  sands  in  these  same  counties,  the 
principal  pay  has  been  found  in  what  is  styled  the  "Lower 
Sunnybrook."  This  sand  has  come  to  be  regarded  as 
the  only  definite  oil  pay  in  this  limestone  horizon,  the 
other  pays  coming  at  very  irregular  depths  of  from  250 
to  850  feet  below  the  surface  in  these  southern  counties. 
Because  of  the  great  irregularity  of  these  lower  sands, 
little  dependence  can  be  placed  in  them,  and  it  is  certain 
that  they  cannot  be  regarded  as  important  producers  of 
crude  oil  in  Kentucky. 

THE  CINCIXNATIAN 

Directly  above  the  "Trenton"  Group  and  just  be- 
low the  base  of  the  Upper  Silurian  where  it  is  present, 
and  the  "Black  Shale"  where  the  Silurian  is  absent,  lie 
a  rather  thick  series  of  limestones,  bastard  limes,  blue 
shales,  and  some  thin  calcareous  sandstones.  These  were 
called  by  the  older  geologists  the  Hudson  Group.  South 
of  the  Kentucky  line  in  Tennessee  they  are  known  as 
the  Nashville  Group.  These  rocks,  which  form  the  outer 
Blue  Grass  section  of  this  State,  find  their  strongest  and 
most  typical  development  here.  In  this  portion  of  Ken- 
tucky they  reach  an  aggregate  thickness  of  about  700  feet 
and  have  been  stratigraphically  divided  into  three  stages 
which  are  in  ascending  order,  the  Eden,  the  Maysville 
and  the  Richmond. 


System 

Series 

Sand 

Lithology 
in    Order 

Thickness 
in  Feet 

Upper 
Ordovician 

Cincinnatian 

"Caney" 
"Upper  Sunnybrook" 
Barren   County    "Deep" 
Cumberland   "Shallow" 

Limestone 
Blue  Shales 
Sandstone 

450-700+  or- 

South  of  the  central  Blue  Grass  area,  the  Cincin- 
natian again  outcrops  along  the  Cumberland  River  in 
widening  exposure  from  the  southwestern  part  of  Pu- 


70  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES   OF  KENTUCKY 

laski  County  to  the  State  line  in  the  southeastern  part 
of  Monroe.  In  this  region,  however,  due  to  its  prox- 
imity to  the  saddle  between  the  Lexington  and  Nash- 
ville domes,  only  a  portion  of  the  full  thickness  of  this 
group  may  be  seen.  In  this  section  of  the  State  the  en- 
tire group  thickness  would  be  about  450  feet  due  to  the 
absence  of  the  upper  members.  Because  of  the  difficulty 
with  which  the  base  of  the  Cincinnatian  and  the  top  of 
the  Trenton  is  determined  under  cover,  little  is  known 
concerning  the  thickness  of  this  Upper  Ordovician  group 
at  any  considerable  distance  away  from  the  outcrop.  It 
is  thought,  however,  that  with  a  thickness  of  450  feet 
in  Cumberland  and  Clinton  counties,  that  it  will  thicken 
to  550  feet  under  Wayne,  and  attain  600  or  650  feet  in 
Whitley  County.  In  Russell  and  Pulaski,  500  to  550  feet 
is  the  average.  West  and  southwest  of  Cumberland  county 
very  little  success  has  attended  efforts  to  delimit  the  Cin- 
cinnatian,  but  estimates  of  from  600  to  700  feet  have  been 
made.  Due  to  the  rapid  dip  to  the  northwest,  this  group 
of  rocks  attain  great  depths  in  western  Warren  and 


OLD   LAGRANGE  GAS  WELL. 

This  well  which  is  located  on  a  farm  one  mile  southeast  of  La- 
grange,  Oldham  County,  and  on  the  headwaters  of  Floyd's  Creek, 
was  drilled  in  by  Lagrange  capital  about  twenty  years  ago.  Never  a 
large  producer,  local  reports  state  that  it  early  became  exhausted. 
It  is  located  on  a  small  anticlinal  fold.  Of  three  other  old  gassers  one 
is  still  producing.  Photo  by  W.  R.  Jillson,  April  13,  1919. 


STRATIGRAPHY  AND  EVALUATION  71 

Logan  counties,  and  are  therefore  unimportant  from  a 
prospecting  standpoint. 

As  an  oil  and  gas  producing  horizon,  the  Cincin- 
natian  has  just  claims  to  recognition.  It  contains  the 
"Caney"  Sand  of  Wolfe  and  Morgan  counties.  The 
"Upper  Sunnybrook"  of  Wayne  also  belongs  in  this 
series.  Various  shallow  Blue  Grass  wells  have  found 
small  production  in  this  group.  Examples  of  these  are 
the  Oldham  County  gas  wells  near  Lagrange,  and  the 
Bourbon  County  oil  wells  near  Middleton.  In  Barren 
County  and  in  Clinton  County  production  was  secured 
by  some  old  wells  in  a  sand  300  to  400  feet  below  the 
"Black  Shale."  At  such  a  depth  this  sand  may  well  be 
included  within  the  Cincinnatian.  The  principal  area  of 
productivity  of  this  group  of  rocks  has  been  outlined  in 
the  southern  central  part  of  the  State,  and  it  is  not 
thought  likely  that  any  pools  of  importance  will  ever  be 
located  at  any  great  distance  from  this  section. 

THE  SILURIAN  SYSTEM 

THE  CLINTON  FOEMATION 

The  lowermost  formation  in  the  Silurian  system  as 
now  understood  in  Kentucky  is  the  "Clinton"  sandy 
magnesian  limestone.  Though  well  and  widely  known 
among  oil  men  by  this  name,  it  has  been  rechristened 
during  the  past  decade,  and  is  now  properly  called  the 
Brassfield  after  a  typical  exposure  in  Madison  County. 
It  is  a  rather  thin  bed,  varying  between  10  and  20  feet, 
the  thicker  portions  being  on  the  eastern  side  of  the  Cin- 
cinnati arch.  In  the  certain  occurrence  of  the  "Clinton" 
or  Brassfield  on  both  sides  of  the  Cincinnati  arch,  this 
formation  bears  an  unique  distinction  in  the  Silurian 
Group,  for  it  is  the  only  one  of  which  this  is  true.  Red- 
dish in  color,  the  Clinton  generally  exhibits  the  well 
known  "flax  seed"  iron  ore,  lithological  characteristic, 
which  in  many  drillings  has  assisted  considerably  in  its 
identification.  Geographically,  the  Clinton  is  an  eastern 
and  western  Kentucky  limestone.  It  does  not  occur  in 
the  central  Blue  Grass,  having  never  been  deposited  in 
this  section  which  was  probably  a  land  area  during  the 
Clinton  time. 


72 


OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 


Throughout  Kentucky  where  it  has  been  identified 
definitely,  the  "Clinton"  is  found  to  be  petroliferous, 
but  it  cannot  be  said  that  a  single  instance  of  important 
commercial  quantities  of  oil  or  gas  can  be  referred  to 
it  in  this  State.  In  Western  Kentucky  it  is  recognized 
in  wells  as  a  light  blue  limestone.  In  the  eastern  province 
it  is  a  darker  sandy  limestone  where  it  does  not  show  the 
more  typical  reddish  color  and  the  "flax  seed"  char- 
acteristic. Following  the  uniformity  of  dip  on  either  side 
of  the  arch,  the  "Clinton"  or  Brassfield  drops  off  rather 
quickly  both  to  east  and  the  west,  and  it  is  only  reached  at 
those  points  which  are  somewhat  removed  from  the  rim 
by  rather  deep  drilling.  The  position  of  the  "Clinton" 
is  shown  in  a  table  in  a  discussion  of  the  Niagaran,  since 
it  is  now  considered  the  lowermost  member  of  this  group. 

THE  NIAGARAS 

Although  the  term  "Niagaran"  has  been  recently 
expanded  by  stratigraphers  to  include  the  underlying 
"Clinton"  or  Brassfield,  in  the  minds  of  most  oil  pro- 
ducers it  goes  down  only  to  this  last  named  limestone 
formation.  Good  reason  for  this  separation  by  oil  drill- 
ers is  found  in  the  apparent  isolation  from  a  producing 
standpoint  of  the  two  divisions.  Recognizing  the  import- 
ance here  of  such  considerations,  the  "Niagaran"  and 
"Clinton"  are  presented  separately,  though  their  sec- 
tion is  given  in  combination. 


System 

Series 

Sand 

Lithology    in    Order 

Thickness 

in  Feet 

Silurian 

Xiagaran 

"Niagaran" 

Alternating  limestone, 
shales,  and 
sandy  limestones. 

50-250  E.  of  Arch 
50—200  W.  of  Arch 

"Clinton" 

Light  to  dark,  blue  to 
blue  to  redlish,  sandy 
limestone. 

5-20 

The  "Niagaran"  proper  in  Kentucky  consists  of  a 
series  of  alternating  thick  shales  and  then  sandy  lime- 
stones lying  above  the  "Clinton"  if  this  is  excluded,  or 
the  uppermost  Cincmnatian — Ordovician — if  the  "Clin- 
ton" is  taken  into  the  group.  Directly  above  the  "Nia- 
agarn"  is  found  the  "Onondaga"  ("Corniferous") 


STRATIGRAPHY  AND  EVALUATION  73 

limestone  of  the  Devonian.  Always  an  irregular  group 
of  sediments  in  total  thickness,  it  may  be  said  that  drill- 
ing has  determined  its  greatest  thickness  in  Estill,  Powell, 
Menifee,  Mason,  Lewis,  Eowan,  Fleming,  Bath  and  Madi- 
son, and  parts  of  adjoining  counties.  Farther  east,  west, 
and  south  the  section  thins  perceptibly.  Its  greatest  thick- 
ness is  probably  not  much  over  250  feet,  and  this  will  be 
found  in  only  a  few  wells  or  localities.  In  the  vicinity  of 
Louisville,  the  uppermost  "Niagaran"  is  what  is  known 
as  the  Louisville  Limestone.  It  has  here  a  thickness  of 
about  100  feet  and  is  underlain  by  the  Waldron  Shale  of 
about  15  to  20  feet  in  thickness.  Below  these  lie  in  order 
the  Laurel  limestone  and  the  Osgood  shale  with  a  total 
thickness  varying  from  75  to  150  feet.  Proceeding  south 
from  Louisville,  and  under  cover,  some  of  these  members 
of  the  "Niagaran"  drop  out  and  others  thin  considerably, 
giving  a  much  reduced  section  in  the  southern  part  of  the 
State. 

It  is  only  recently — within  the  last  three  years — 
that  the  importance  of  the  " Niagaran"  group  of  shales 
and  limestones  has  come  to  be  appreciated  from  an  oil 
and  gas  standpoint.  Development,  and  with  it  a  study 
of  the  logs  produced,  has  now  placed  the  "Niagaran" 
system  second  perhaps  only  to  the  "Onondaga"  ("Corni- 
fcrous")  limestone  as  a  prolific  producer  of  high  com- 
mercial oil.  The  recent  development  of  the  Estill, 
Powell  and  Lee  County  Fields — though  the  production 
here  was  secured  mainly  from  the  "Onondaga" — offered 
the  suggestion  that  the  " Niagaran"  group  directly  un- 
derlying was  very  possibly  making  some  considerable 
contribution  to  the  accumulation.  But  it  was  found  with 
the  extension  of  the  work  in  Allen  and  Barren,  and  a 
part  of  Warren  counties,  that  the  role  of  the  "Nia- 
garan" became  important.  Here,  occurring  as  a  sandy 
limestone  with  a  high  degree  of  porosity,  it  holds  a  posi- 
tion of  equal  rank  with  the  "Onondaga"  ("Cornifer- 
ous")  and  by  some  producers  is  considered  superior.  Its 
total  thickness  in  Allen  County  has  not  been  definitely  de- 
termined, but  this  as  well  as  the  aerial  distribution  of  its 
productivity  will  be  established  during  the  present  field 
season. 


74  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

THE  DEVONIAN  SYSTEM 

THE  ONONDAGA  (CORNIFEEOUS)  LIMESTONE 

As  the  principal  oil  producing  horizon  in  Kentucky, 
the  ' '  Onondaga  "  or  ' l  Cornif erous ' '  Limestone  commands 
first  attention  among  all  of  the  productive  formations  in 
the  State.  Coupled  with  the  overlying  Hamilton,  found 
only  on  the  western  flank  of  the  Cincinnati  arch,  it  has 
been  definitely  classed  as  of  Middle  Devonian  time.  East 
of  the  Cincinnati  Anticline  the  "Onondaga"  occurs  alone, 
and  here  it  attains  a  thickness  varying  from  25  to  45  feet. 


EXPOSURE  OF  ALLEN-BARREN  "OIL  SANDS." 

The  upper  ledge  is  the  Onondaga  "Corniferous."  The  lower  ledge, 
the  upper  portion  of  which  protrudes  above  the  water,  is  the  Niagaran. 
The  view  is  at  the  mouth  of  Glover's  Creek  on  the  Barren  River,  Barren 
County,  Ky.  Photo  by  W.  R.  Jillson,  July  16,  1919. 

It  rests  disconformably  upon  the  Middle  Silurian  or 
" Niagaran."  The  casual  similarity  of  drilling  samples 
of  these  two  limestone  formations,  though  separated  by 
a  distinct  shale,  has  led  to  a  great  deal  of  confusion, 
especially  on  the  part  of  drillers  unaccustomed  to  the 
sequence,  as  to  the  exact  limitations  of  either  limestone 
formation  under  cover. 


STRATIGRAPHY  AND  EVALUATION 


75 


System 

Series 

Sand 

Lithology  in  Order 

Thickness 
in  Feet 

Middle 
Devonian 

Hamilton 

"Corniferous"     or 
"Irvine" 
or  "Ragland,"  etc. 

Cement  limestone 
W.  Ky.    only 

0-24 
0-45 

Onondaga 

Cherty   mag  nesian 
limestone  with 
porus  strata. 

The  "Onondaga"  or  "  Cornif  erous  "  bed— the  "Ir- 
vine" and  "Bagland"  sands  as  it  is  more  popularly 
known  among  the  drillers — is  a  thick  bedded,  massive, 
magncsian  limestone.  At  the  outcrop  it  is  generally  char- 
acterized by  an  abundance  of  cherty  inclusions.  These 
produce,  as  a  result  of  unequal  weathering,  an  irregular 
surface  giving  the  "Onondaga"  limestone  the  hornstone 
name.  A  widely  distributed  characteristic  of  this  forma- 
tion, especially  under  cover  and  at  short  distances  from 
the  outcrop,  is  its  tendency  to  develop  a  considerable  de- 
gree of  minute  porosity  due  to  solution  and  dolomitiza- 
tion.  Examples  of  this  may  be  seen  in  widely  separated 
portions  of  the  State.  The  writer  has  remarked  the  oc- 
currence in  Lewis,  Estill  and  Allen  counties  and  it  is  to 
be  seen  at  many  intervening  points.  This  porous  tend- 
ency is  the  chief  factor  of  importance  from  an  oil  pros- 
pecting standpoint,  as  only  in  those  localties  where  the 
limestone  is  porous  to  a  considerable  degree  at  least,  is 
there  any  possibility  of  recovering  oil  in  commercial 
quantities. 

A  comparison  of  well  records  and  typical  exposures 
demonstrates  that  directly  underlying  the  "Black  Shale" 
occur  three  to  five  feet  of  dark  brown,  hard,  bituminous 
and  sometimes  sandy  limestone  ledges,  alternating  with 
thin,  dun  colored,  calcareous  shales.  This  phase  is  the 
so-called  "cap  rock"  so  well  known  to  the  driller.  A 
hornstone  of  a  gray  color  and  of  somewhat  massive  char- 
acter follows,  which  is  in  turn  underlain  by  a  number  of 
strata  of  gray  colored  flintless  magnesian  limestones. 
The  base  of  the  "Onondaga"  is  a  white  or  light  lime- 
stone. One  of  the  remarkable  facts  in  connection  with 
the  occurrence  of  the  petroliferous  strata  or  pockets  in 
the  "Onondaga"  is  that  it  may  occur  well  towards  the 
top  of  the  formation  in  the  hard,  flinty  phase,  or  again 
fairly  well  towards  the  base  in  the  pure  limestone.  Fre- 
quently the  oil  "pay"  is  found  at  both  horizons. 


OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 


WHERE  THE  "CORNIFEROUS"  PINCHES  DOWN. 
The  Devonian-Silurian  contact  is  where  the  handkerchief  is  held 
by  the  two  lower  men.  The  Black  Shale — Onondaga  (Corniferous) 
contact  is  at  the  left  hand  of  the  upper  man.  At  this  point,  %  mile 
below  Glover's  Creek  on  Barren  River,  Barren  County,  Ky.,  the  Onon- 
daga is  only  7  feet  thick.  Photo  by  W.  R.  Jillson,  July  16,  1919. 

The  result  of  increased  drillings  has  been  to  ex- 
tend the  known  sub-surface  occurrence  of  the  "Onon- 
daga" limestone.  In  a  broad  way  it  may  be  said  to  under- 
lie the  whole  eastern  coal  field  with  the  exception  perhaps 
of  the  very  southeastern  counties  where  deep  drilling 


STRATIGRAPHY  AND  EVALUATION  77 

has  not  been  carried  out,  and  where  information  is  lack- 
ing. Passing  west  and  southwest  in  an  arc,  it  is  found 
under  Allen,  Simpson  and  Warren  counties,  and  then  ex- 
tends north  in  a  broadening  V  to  the  Ohio  River,  where 
at  Louisville  it  forms  with  the  overlying  Hamilton  the 
falls  of  that  river.  Incidentally  it  may  be  recalled  in  pass- 
ing, that  it  is  to  the  river  bed  outcrop  at  this  point  of  the 
"Onondaga"  limestone  and  the  falls  which  it  forms  that 
Louisville  owes  its  birth  and  present  industrial  position. 
Though  so  widely  distributed  and  so  productive  in 
certain  localized  sections,  it  cannot  be  said  that  the  * '  On- 
ondaga"  is  by  any  means  a  state  wide  producer.  In 
eastern  Kentucky  in  Lawrence,  Magoffin,  Johnson  and 
Floyd,  it  has  been  identified  at  increasing  depths  both 
south  and  east.  In  every  case  it  has  been  found  to  be 
quite  tight  and  thoroughly  unsatisfactory  with  only  faint 
shows  of  oil  or  gas.  Possibly  the  small  number  of  wells 
as  compared  to  the  widespread  acreage  referred  to  makes 
any  conclusions  with  respect  to  the  Corniferous  in  this 
section  somewhat  premature.  However,  evidence  seems 
to  point  to  the  fact  that  in  this  or  any  other  part  of  Ken- 
tucky where  the  over  burden  is  thick  and  heavy,  or  where 
the  structural  location  of  the  "Onondaga"  is  essentially 
geosynclinal,  this  well  known  horizon  does  not  have  much 
to  offer  to  the  oil  and  gas  prospectors.  As  the  greatest 
oil  producing  horizon  in  the  state,  however,  it  will  con- 
tinue to  be  of  great  interest,  and  will  be  ''wild  catted"  in 
many  forlorn  and  out  of  the  way  places  by  hopeful  pros- 
pectors. The  net  result  of  this  faithful  exploration  will 
result  without  doubt  in  the  discovery  of  a  number  of  new 
oil  and  gas  pools  of  varying  importance.  To  date  the  fol- 
lowing, the  chief  pools  in  Kentucky,  derive  their  produc- 
tion from  the  "Onondaga"  or  "Corniferous"  limestone 
either  in  part  or  in  whole.  (1)  Ragland,  oil;  (2)  Menifee, 
gas;  (3)  Irvine,  oil  and  gas;  (4)  Campton,  oil;  (5)  Cannel 
City,  oil  and  gas;  (6)  Big  Sinking,  oil;  (7)  Ashley,  oil; 
(8)  Boss  Creek,  oil;  (9)  Station  Camp,  oil;  (10)  Miller's 
Creek,  oil;  (11)  Buck  Creek,  oil;  (12)  northwestern 
Allen  County  Pools,  oil  and  gas;  (13)  some  Barren 
County  Pools,  oil  and  gas;  (14)  some  Warren  County 
Pools,  oil  and  gas:  (15)  various  other  small  and  as  yet 
unimportant  oil  and  gas  pools. 


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THE  BLACK  SHALE 

Besting  unconformably  on  the  ' '  Onondaga  "  or  "  Cor- 
nif erous ' '  limestone,  for  which  it  serves  as  the  principal 
protection,  the  "Black  Shale"  of  Upper  Devonian  time 
is  the  most  pronounced,  widely  distributed,  and  best 
known  drilling  horizon  in  Kentucky.  It  has  as  equiva- 
lents in  part  or  in  whole  the  ''Ohio  Black  Shale,"  the 
"Chattanooga"  Shale  of  Tennessee,  and  the  "Genesee" 
Shale  of  New  York.  In  some  places  in  Kentucky,  prin- 
cipally from  the  vicinity  of  Morehead  southward  in  a  belt 
underlying  the  western  edge  of  the  eastern  coal  field,  the 
superimposed  Bedford  and  "Berea"  formations  of  the 
lower  Mississippian  pinch  out  and  drop  the  black  or 


THE  DEVONIAN  LIMESTONE  AND  SHALE. 

This  view  shows  the  Onondaga  (Corniferous)  Limestone  and  the 
Black  Shale,  above  it.  In  cut  on  Winchester-Irvine  branch  of  L.  & 
N.  R.  R.  Photo  by  W.  R.  Jillson. 

brown  Sunbury  Shale  of  the  same  system  down  on  to  the 
Devonian  "Black  Shale."  As  one  progresses  to  the  south, 
the  Sunbury  thickens,  and  lying  immediately  above  the 
"Black  Shale"  with  no  definite  line  of  demacation,  it 
frequently  happens  that  drillers  include  the  Sunbury 
with  the  "Black  Shale"  in  their  logs.  While  the  error  is 
widespread,  it  is  unintentional  and  for  the  most  part 
from  a  drilling  or  production  standpoint  at  least,  makes 


STRATIGRAPHY  AND  EVALUATION 


71) 


no  difference.  In  this  discussion  all  references  to  the 
"Black  Shale"  are  intended  to  be  to  that  portion  only 
which  is  Upper  Devonian.  Due  to  the  above  causes,  how- 
ever, it  is  quite  impossible  to  eliminate  a  small  element 
of  error.  In  stratigraphic  section  the  Black  Shale  ap- 
pears as  follows : 


System 

Series 

Sand 

Lithology 
in  Order 

Thickness  in  Feet 

Upper  Devonian 

Black  Shale 

"Strays" 

Black,   fissile 
Bituminous 
Fine  shale 

75—  Southeast 
240—  Northeast 
—Southwest 

The  prospecting  drill  has  pierced  the  " Black  Shale" 
in  nearly  every  part  of  the  state  except  the  central  Blue 
Grass  and  the  Jackson  Purchase.  In  the  Blue  Grass 
section  it  can  never  be  found  since  the  leveling  agencies 
of  erosion  have  removed  it.  In  the  Purchase  it  is  much 
too  deep  to  have  been  of  interest.  In  all  other  places  it 
has  been  found  to  have  a  very  uniform,  lithe-logic  charac- 
ter, rather  soft  under  the  bit  and  always  easily  recogniza- 


AN  ANTICLINE  BUT  NOT  AN  OIL  STRUCTURE. 
The  view  shows  a  small  anticlinal  buckling  and  slight  faulting 
with  perpendicular  drag  zone  in  the  Black  shale  on  Sulphur  Creek, 
Nelson  County,  Ky.  This  structure  and  many  others  of  its  kind  pos- 
sess illustrative  values  only.  It  could  not  possibly  have  any  effect  on 
oil  and  gas  accumulation.  Photo  by  W.  R.  Jillson,  July  14,  1919. 


SO  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

ble.  It  never  fails  to  show  a  very  oily  and  gassy  character. 
A  considerable  number  of  so  called  oil  seepages  have  been 
reported  along  its  outcrop,  but  none  of  them  are  large  or 
of  commercial  importance.  Though  always  suggestive 
of  oil  and  gas  the  * '  Black  Shale ' '  in  Kentucky  has  but  a 
very  few  instances  of  actual  occurrence  of  these  hydro- 
carbons in  commercial  quantities.  Of  these  exceptions 
to  a  widely  established  rule,  there  are  three  that  deserve 
attention.  The  first  and  oldest  of  these  is  the  Meade 
County  gas  which  comes  from  a  "Stray"  sand  in  the 
"Black  Shale."  The  second  of  these  is  that  of  a  single 
gas  well,  in  a  thin  "Stray"  sand  at  a  depth  of  about 
2000  feet  in  the  Beaver  Creek  section  of  Floyd  County. 
The  third  instance  is  that  of  one  or  two  relatively  shallow 
wells  which  have  penetrated  the  "Stray"  sands  in  Bar- 
ren and  Allen  Counties  rather  recently. 

In  all  of  these  instances  the  production  from  these 
"Black  Shale"  "Strays"  has  been  gassy  and  not  oily. 
This  fact  is  remarkable.  It  is  especially  remarkable 
when  it  is  taken  into  consideration  that  the  chief  oil  hori- 
zon of  the  state,  the  "Onondaga"  limestone,  underlies 
directly  the  "Black  Shale,"  and  that  this  same  shale  is 
frequently  found  to  be  overlain  by  various  oil  horizons 
of  high  quality,  if  generally  of  small  quantity.  It  is  a 
matter  of  record  that  many  geologists  of  ability  in  Ken- 
tucky have  subscribed  their  approval  to  the  "Black 
Shale,"  as  the  indigenous  source  of  Kentucky's  principal 
oil  production.  The  reasons  for  such  subscription  and 
accord  are  difficult  to  perceive.  It  may  be  said  plainly 
that  not  only  the  above  remarkable  fact  serves  in  the  mind 
of  the  writer  to  condemn  such  unfounded  conclusions, 
but  that  there  are  besides  this  many  additional  reasons 
why  the  ' '  Black  Shale ' ' — the  most  oily,  gassy,  and  barren 
horizon  in  Kentucky — is  without  commercial  oil  pools  of 
importance.*  In  some  parts  of  Ohio  and  Tennessee  as 
well  as  in  Kentucky  small  amounts  of  low  rock  pressure 
gas — indicating  plainly  the  cut  off  and  confined  lens  char- 
acter of  the  "Stray"  sand — have  been  found  and  used 
commercially.  However,  as  an  important  producer  of  gas 
the  "Black  Shale"  is  quite  as  much  a  failure  as  it  is  in 

*Jillson,  W.  R.,  The  New  Oil  and  Gas  Pools  of  Allen  County,  Dept. 
of  Geol.  and  Forestry  of  Kentucky,  Mineral  and  Forest  Resources,  Series 
V,  Volume  I,  No.  II,  pp.  120-143,  1919. 


STRATIGRAPHY  AND  EVALUATION  81 

the  production  of  oil  in  commercial  quantities.  What- 
ever rare  and  individual  exceptions  may  be  taken  to  this 
stand,  it  cannot  be  denied  that  the  principal  amount  of 
the  oil  and  gas  hydrocarbons  indigenous  to  the  "Black 
Shale ' '  are  still  within  it,  and  by  virtue  of  their  chemical 
condition  at  present  and  widespread  dissemination,  are 
protected  from  recovery  by  the  exploring  drill.  What 
percentage  of  the  known  petroliferous  content  of  this 
formation  may  be  recovered  through  destructive  distilla- 
tion methods  remains  for  the  future  to  disclose.  A  num- 
ber of  tests  run  separately  on  this  shale  from  samples 
taken  at  points  all  around  the  " horseshoe"  of  the  out- 
crop in  Kentucky  show  that  the  "Black  Shale"  may  be 
expected  to  produce  under  ordinarily  severe  methods 
from  10  to  25  gallons  of  tarry  or  oily  sub- 
stance to  the  ton.  It  has  been  claimed  that  with 
better  and  improved  methods  as  much  as  30  gallons  can 
easily  be  secured.  While  the  practicality  of  placing  such 
large  investments  in  a  venture  of  this  kind,  as  would  be 
required,  is  seriously  doubted,  under  present  market 
standards,  it  may  be  pointed  out  that  should  these  same 
conditions  change  this  great  petroliferous  shale  body 
may  offer  practically  unlimited  supplies  for  a  future  and 
higher  priced  market. 

THE  MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM 

THE  WAVERLY  SERIES 

Outcropping  close  to  the  western  border  of  the 
Eastern  Coal  Field  from  Lewis  and  Greenup  counties 
southwesterly  to  the  Tennessee  line  counties  of  Allen, 
Monroe  and  Cinton,  and  thence  north  through  Taylor  to 
Bullitt  at  the  Ohio  Eiver,  are  found  that  group  of  shales, 
limestones,  and  sandstones  which  have  been  given  the 
group  name  of  Waverly.  As  a  rule  these  lower  Missis- 
sippian  sediments  are  clastic — sandy  and  shaly — in  the 
northeast.  They  become  more  calcareous  and  less  clastic 
toward  the  south,  and  on  the  swing  around  again  to  the 
north  toward  Louisville  they  become  somewhat  calcar- 
eous. In  general  the  thickness  of  this  group  is  greater  in 
the  north  and  northeast  on  either  side  of  the  Cincinnati 
arch,  and  less  in  the  southern  part  of  the  State.  Greenup 


OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 


CROSS  BEDDING  AND  NOT  OIL  STRUCTURE 
This  is  a  weathering  characteristic  developed  in  the  Fort  Payne 
chert  of  Barren  County.    The  dips  at  the  right  are  rendered  value- 
less as  structural  indications  by  the  occurrence  of  the  horizontal  beds 
at  the  left.    Photo  by  W.  R.  Jillson,  July  17,  1919. 

County  shows  about  500  feet,  which  decreases  to  about 
400  feet  in  Bath  and  Fleming.  In  the  southern  part  of  the 
State  it  is  not  more  than  300  or  350  feet.  The  Waverly  is 
divided  into  four  formations  stratigraphically,  which  are 
in  ascending  order  the  Kinderhook,  the  Cuyahoga,  the 
Logan,  and  the  Warsaw.  The  oil  sand  relationships  are 
as  follows: 


1 

Series 

Sand 

I.ithology 
in   Order 

Thickness 
Feet 

in 

Keener 

Big-   Injun 

Squaw 

Clastics  —  s  a  n  d- 

500  in 

N.  E. 

c 

Wier 

stones  and     shales 

1 

^ 

Berea 

in     Eastern      Ken- 

ll 

? 

Stray              "] 

tucky. 

400-600  in 

E. 

i 

> 

- 

Mt.   Pisgah 
Ot^eT1^            ^Wayne 
Cooper 

Calcareous      shales 
and    limestones    in 
Western  Kentucky. 

300-350  in 
200  in 

S. 
S.   E. 

Slickford       J 

Amber  oil   sand  of  Barren, 

400  in 

W. 

W'arren    and    Simpson. 

STRATIGRAPHY  AND  EVALUATION  83 

The  areal  distribution  or  outcrop  of  the  Waverly 
in  Kentucky  is  considerable  but  this  expanse  is  about 
doubled  by  its  extent  under  cover.  It  underlies  the 
Eastern  and  Western  Coal  Fields,  and  probably  also  the 
Jackson  Purchase  but  at  much  greater  depths.  The 
Waverly  contains  a  long  list  of  petroliferous  sands. 
Many  of  these  sands  are  of  widespread  extent,  such  as  the 
"Big  Injun"  group.  Some  are  localized  producers  only, 
as  the  "Wier"  and  the  "Berea,"  the  Wayne  County 
group,  or  the  Barren,  Warren  and  Simpson  counties 
Amber  Oil  Horizon.  East  and  west  of  its  outcrop  the 
Waverly,  following  the  normal  dip,  plunges  rapidly  under 
cover,  where  well  records  generally  easily  establish  its 
position  and  its  petroliferous  sands. 

In  the  eastern  coal  field  the  counties  of  Lewis,  Green- 
up,  Carter,  Boyd,  Elliott,  Lawrence,  Johnson,  Martin  and 
Floyd  are  underlain  either  in  part  or  in  whole  by  the 
Berea  and  Wier  sands,  which  are  the  lowest  widespread 
producers  in  the  Waverly  group.  Furthermore,  these 
sands  are  to  be  regarded  as  productive  on  structure 
within  this  area  as  shown  by  many  tests.  In  Wayne  and 
adjoining  counties,  the  "  Stray,"  "Mt.  Pisgah," 
"Beaver,"  "Otter,"  "Cooper"  and  "Slickford"  sands 
are  productive.  The  entire  southeastern  portion  of  the 
Eastern  Coal  Field,  from  Mt.  Vernon  in  Eockcastle 
eastward  to  Inez  and  the  Tug  Fork  of  the  Big  Sandy 
Eiver  in  Martin  County,  is  underlain  by  the  "Big  Injun" 
group.  This  group  consists  of  the  "Keener,"  "Big 
Injun"  and  "Squaw"  sands,  each  named  in  descending 
order.  In  this  group  well  records  show  that  one  or  two 
of  these  sands  are  generally  missing.  The  "Big  Injun" 
group  may  be  regarded  as  a  gas  producer  of  importance 
in  Eastern  Kentucky,  but  it  is  not  an  oil  horizon  in  the 
commercial  sense  of  the  word  though  very  small  high 
gravity  oil  production  is  being  secured  from  it  from  a 
well  on  Toms  Creek  in  Johnson  County. 

THE  ST.  GENEVIEVE-ST.  LOUIS  LIMESTONE 

The  most  persistent  and  easily  recognized  shallow 
to  mediumly  deep  limestone  horizon  in  Kentucky  is  that 
which  is  known  throughout  the  literature  as  the  St. 
Genevieve-St.  Louis  group.  It  is  the  outstanding  cal- 


84 


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careous  feature  of  the  Mississippian  System.  Taken  to- 
gether with  their  occasional  thin  sand  inclusion,  these  two 
formations  are  known  as  the  "Big  Lime"  by  most 
drillers.  They  are  also  less  frequently  known  and  corre- 
lated with  the  Newman  limestone  and  the  Mountain  lime- 
stone of  adjoining  states.  The  sequence  of  this  limestone 
group  is  as  follows : 


i 

s 
5 

•3 

Lithology    in    Order 

Thickness  in  Feet 

m 

OS 

02 

3 

<u 

"(1) 

Fine  sands  oolitic  white  lime- 

I    20—  400  E.  Ky. 

a 

?*     m 

£ 

stone. 

\ 

1 

fi    3 

3 

Tan  sand  lens. 

)       5-     7  E.  Ky. 

| 

o  j 

to 

Fine  gray  white  compact  lime- 

f 475—1000  W.  Ky. 

stone. 

J 

s 

tO  M 

Although  generally  found  in  place,  the  "Big  Lime" 
group,  as  may  be  seen  from  the  above  figures  covering 
its  range  of  thickness,  is  variable.  It,  however,  furnishes 
a  very  important  guide  for  wild  cat  drilling  where  it  is 
imder  cover,  and  it  is  also  of  considerable  use  through 
the  definiteness  of  its  lower  surface  in  those  sections  of 
the  State  where  it  is  exposed  and  forms  the  surficial 
rocks.  The  "Big  Lime"  group  was  formerly  one  which 
was  in  much  dispute,  many  drillers  mistaking  Lower 
Ordovician  rocks  for  it,  and  consequently  attributing  to 
it  much  lower  horizons  than  it  really  occupies.  However, 
this  error  is  now  one  of  comparative  rarity  due  to  the 
better  understanding  of  the  various  sections  throughout 
the  State  of  Kentucky  that  are  now  being  drilled.  Some 
thicknesses  of  the  "Big  Lime,"  as  discovered  by  the 
drill,  may  be  of  use  in  further  prospecting.  In  Eastern 
Kentucky  under  the  coal  field,  the  "Big  Lime"  group  is 
found  thinest  in  Greenup,  Boyd  and  Carter  counties, 
and  thickest  to  the  southeast  along  the  Pine  Mountain 
fault.  Near  Ashland  it  is  about  60  feet,  and  in  Greenup 
40,  in  Eowan  and  Menifee  between  20  and  60,  in  Bath 
and  Montgomery  between  65  and  100,  in  Estill  and 
Powell  about  150  to  160  feet,  in  Magoffin  and  Johnson 
from  100  to  140,  in  Floyd  from  120  to  200,  in  Wolfe  and 
Morgan  75  to  110,  in  Lawrence  150,  in  Martin  and  Pike 


STRATIGRAPHY  AND  EVALUATION  85 

180  to  240.  On  the  Pine  Mountain  fault  it  is  about  400 
feet  thick  and  at  Cumberland  Gap  about  the  same. 
Whitley  County  shows  in  a  deep  well  at  Pine  Knot  395 
feet,  and  the  outcrop  in  Clinton  County  has  been  meas- 
ured at  303  feet.  Going  westward  in  Meade  County,  it  is 
475  feet  thick,  and  in  Hart  500.  Breckinridge  shows  over 
700  feet,  and  with  a  regular  thickening  to  the  west,  800 
and  1,000  feet  is  what  may  be  expected.  From  Whitley 
County  westward  the  underlying  Warsaw  limestone, 
about  100  feet  thick,  is  liable  to  be  included  in  the  drill 
records. 

The  following  depths  below  the  surface  may  be  of 
some  service.  In  Carter  County,  Big  Lime  was  struck 
at  about  80  feet,  but  is  exposed  in  the  lowest  drainage. 
The  rapid  dip  to  the  east  puts  it  500  feet  below  the  sur- 
face in  Boyd  and  975  feet  near  Huntington  in  West  Vir- 
ginia. In  the  southern  part  of  Lawrence  County  it  is 
not  over  160  feet  below  the  surface,  but  in  the  central 
portion,  due  to  a  deep  syncline,  it  is  over  1,000  feet.  In 
Wolfe  County  it  is  about  420  feet  below  the  surface,  and 
m  Morgan  County  between  360  and  460.  Progressing  to 
the  south  in  Magoffin,  it  is  between  700  and  850  feet ;  in 
Floyd  County,  between  1,000  and  1,150.  In  Martin  it  is 
between  1,200  and  1,300  feet,  and  in  Pike  County  about 
1,500  feet.  The  Pine  Knot  well  in  Whitley  County  shows 
it  at  900  feet  below  the  surface.  These  depths,  as  given, 
are  not  intended  as  an  absolute  rule,  but  simply  as  an  in- 
dex to  the  general  location  at  which  the  ''Big  Lime" 
group  may  be  encountered. 

Speaking  within  reasonable  limits,  the  St.  Louis  or 
"Big  Lime"  group  may  be  considered  petroliferous. 
Along  its  outcrop,  especially  in  northeastern  Ken- 
tucky, petroleum  may  be  seen  in  the  cavities  of  freshly 
broken  fragments.  However,  the  quantity  of  petroleum 
in  this  formation  is  small  at  the  outcrop  and  seems  to  be 
less  under  cover,  as  there  is  not  a  record  well  in  Eastern 
Kentucky  which  produces  commercial  quantities  of  oil 
from  this  horizon.  However,  the  '  *  Big  Lime ' '  is  import- 
ant from  a  gas  standpoint,  and  it  is  certain  that  the  gas 
from  this  horizon  in  Floyd  and  Knott  counties,  where  it 
occurs  in  abundance,  as  shown  by  drilled  wells,  will  be 
commercialized.  In  Martin  County,  a  small  amount  of  gas 
from  the  "Big  Lime"  has  been  used  and  gas  has  been 
found  in  the  "Big  Lime"  in  Pike.  The  gas  hor- 


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izon  is  the  thin  tan  sand  lens  which  occurs  about 
midway  through  the  limestone  group.  This  lens  is 
not  uniformly  or  widely  distributed,  nor  in  all 
cases  present  in  the  "Big  Lime,"  but  it  is  known 
to  exist  in  Martin,  southern  Johnson,  southern 
Magoffin,  Floyd,  Pike,  Knott,  and  parts  of  Breathitt. 
How  much  farther  it  may  extend  to  the  southeast  re- 
mains for  a  prospecting  drill  to  tell.  At  present,  the 
largest  gas  well  in  Knott  County,  on  the  Bolen  farm 
on  Kock  Fork  of  Eight  Beaver  Creek,  comes  from  this 
horizon.  The  life  of  gas  obtained  from  the  "Big  Lime" 
sand  inclusion  is  also  a  matter  of  speculation.  Certain- 
ly it  is  not  a  thick  sand,  but  on  the  other  hand  the  lime- 
stones surrounding  it  are  very  thick  both  above  and 
below,  and  also  compact. 

THE  CHESTEE  OR  MATJCH  CHUNK  GROUP. 
This  horizon,  from  an  oil  and  gas  standpoint,  is  one 
of  the  most  important  in  Eastern  Kentucky.  In  Western 
Kentucky  the  lithology  changes  entirely  and  it  also  under- 
goes a  great  thickening.  In  Eastern  Kentucky,  the 
farthermost  part,  the  rocks  of  the  Upper  Mississippian 
are  red  shales,  white  sands,  and  thin  bastard  limestones, 
underlain  by  thin  dark  shales.  This  is  the  Mauch  Chunk 
group,  well  known  in  West  Virginia  and  Pennsylvania. 
Towards  the  southwestern  portion  of  the  eastern  coal 
field,  the  shales  and  the  sands  disappear,  or  rather  are 
graded  over  into  an  increasing  amount  of  calcareous  sedi- 
ments, and  as  one  -passes  over  the  Cincinnati  arch  to  the 
western  coal  field,  the  sands  and  shales  become  inter- 
bedded  with  persistent  limestone  of  the  characteristic 
Chester. 


System 

Series 

Sand 

Lithology    in    Order 

Thickness 
in  Feet 

Red  shale 

Sandy  shale 

White  sand 

Shale 
White  sand 

•E.    Ky. 

30  to  275 

Mississippian 

Chester 

"Maxon" 

Calcareous 

^nd  Mauch 

Shales 

Chunk 

Bastard  lime 

Sandstones,    lime- 
stones and  thin 

W.   Ky. 

300  to  800 

shales 

STRATIGRAPHY  AND  EVALUATION  87 

In  many  ways  the  thickness  of  the  Mauch  Chunk  or 
Chester  is  similar  to  that  of  the  underlying  "Big  Lime" 
group.  In  northeastern  Kentucky,  the  Mauch  Chunk — 
Chester — is  thin,  occurring  at  the  outcrop  as  red  and 
green  shales  with  thin  limestones  and  sands.  The  thick- 
ness continues  as  one  progresses  to  the  south  and  south- 
west, and  the  greatest  thickness  is  attained  in  Western 
Kentucky.  The  Mauch  Chunk  is  an  extremely  variable 
formation  in  point  of  thickness,  and  may,  due  to  the 
great  unconformity  which  exists  between  it  and  the  over- 
lying "Pottsville  Conglomerates"  of  the  Pennsylvanian, 
be  entirely  cut  out.  In  Floyd  and  Pike,  where  it  finds  its 
best  expression  in  Eastern  Kentucky,  it  has  a  thickness 
varying  from  130  to  268  feet.  In  Martin  County  it  varies 
from  140  to  274.  In  Knox  County  it  is  about  268  feet,  and 
the  Pine  Knot  well  in  Whitley  93.  In  Western  Kentucky, 
in  Hancock  County,  it  is  597  feet,  and  in  the  western 
part  of  the  State  probably  reaches  800  feet. 

In  Eastern  Kentucky  the  Mauch  Chunk  is  now  dis- 
tinctly recognized,  as  in  the  adjoining  state  of  Virginia, 
as  a  producer  of  both  oil  and  gas,  and  most  of  the  pro- 
duction of  the  old  Beaver  Creek  field  in  Floyd  County 
may  be  attributed  to  this  horizon.  It  has  been  erroneous- 
ly thought  that  the  white  sand,  which  was  encountered 
in  this  section  at  about  1,000  feet,  belonged  in  the  '  *  Potts- 
ville  Conglomerate"  towards  the  base  of  this  formation, 
but  it  is  now  definitely  known  that  the  Mauch  Chunk 
covers  the  greater  part  of  southern  Johnson,  Martin, 
Floyd  and  Pike  counties  continuously,  and  that  the  oil 
and  gas  obtained  in  this  section  from  a  white  sand  in- 
tercalated between  red  to  green  shales  is  the  "Maxon" 
sand  of  the  Mauch  Chunk,  as  known  and  understood  in 
West  Virginia.  The  possibilities  of  the  "Maxon"  in 
Eastern  Kentucky  have  not  as  yet  been  thoroughly  tested, 
and  it  is  very  probable  that  with  further  drilling  this 
sand  will  be  found  to  produce  in  other  localities  besides 
the  Beaver  Creek  section  in  Floyd  County.  From  a 
standpoint  of  commercialization,  the  oil  and  gas  obtained 
from  the  "Maxon"  are  second  to  none  in  the  State. 
Never  a  large  producer  it  has,  on  the  other  hand,  always 
exhibited  the  sterling  qualities  of  high  grade,  green  oil, 
high  rock  pressure  gas,  and  long  lived  wells  where  either 


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OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES   OF  KENTUCKY 


oil  or  gas  was  encountered.  The  "Maxon"  may  occur  as 
a  single  or  as  a  double  sand,  with  an  intercalated  shale  or 
lime.  It  varies  in  thickness  from  50  to  100  feet.  In  West- 
ern Kentucky,  the  Chester  limestones  have  never  been 
shown  to  be  productive,  and  for  this  reason  will  re- 
ceive no  further  discussion. 

THE  PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM 

THE  POTTSVILLE   CONGLOMEEATES 

One  of  the  very  earliest  horizons  to  produce  both  oil 
and  gas  in  the  State  of  Kentucky  was  the  "Pottsvile 
Conglomerate,"  a  shallow  well  drilled  originally  for  salt 
having  encountered  both  of  these  hydrocarbons  in  Knox 
County  long  before  the  Civil  War.  To  the  present  time, 
the  "Pottsville  Conglomerate"  has  remained  an  im- 
portant shallow  producer  of  oil  and  gas,  though  it  may 
be  said  that  none  of  the  wells  drilled  in  the  Pottsville 
have  ever  produced  in  their  sum  total  as  much  oil  as  has 


CLIFF  OF  THE  POTTSVILLE  CONGLOMERATE. 
This  formation  caps  the  hills  in  the  Oil  Fields,  east  and  south  of 
Irvine  and  gives  the  rugged  character  to  the  topography.     Photo  by 
A.  M.  Miller,  1917. 


STRATIGRAPHY  AND  EVALUATION 


been  secured  from  lower  stratigraphic  horizons.  The 
"Pottsville  Conglomerate"  is  found  at  the  base  of  the 
Coal  Measures,  and  is  therefore  limited  to  the  Eastern 
and  Western  Coal  Fields.  The  name  "Conglomerate" 
is  perhaps  misleading,  as  the  group  of  sandstones,  shales, 
coals  and  true  conglomerates,  which  have  come  to  be 
included  under  this  heading,  are  not  and  could  not  all 
be  conglomeratic.  The  basal  portion  of  the  formation  is 
usually  truly  conglomeratic,  containing  white  quartz 
water  worn  pebbles,  varying  from  the  size  of  a  pea, 
in  Western  Kentucky,  to  that  of  a  dove's  or  a  hen's 
egg  in  southeastern  Kentucky.  The  Pottsville  sequence, 
as  found  in  Eastern  Kentucky,  is  as  follows: 


System 

Series 

Sand 

Lithology 
in  Order 

Thickness 
in  Feet 

Fcnnsyl- 
vanian 

Pottsville 
Conglomerate 

Beaver-H  o  r  t  o  n 
Pike   in   Floyd  and 
Knott. 
Wages,   Jones,   Ep- 
person  in   Knox. 

Alternating     sands 
and  shales. 

Coals  with     strong 
conglomerate  base. 

60—1000 

Changing  thickness  and  the  variable  lithology  are 
the  two  most  important  characteristics  of  the  Pottsville. 
In  general,  the  Pottsville  thicknesses  vary  greatly  and 
regularly  from  northeastern  Kentucky  to  southeastern 
Kentucky.  This  is  due  to  two  features — one,  that  the  con- 
glomeratic portion  of  the  Pottsville  in  northeastern  Ken- 
tucky is  the  surficial  rock  and  its  thickness  in  many  locali- 
ties is  no  greater  than  that  which  has  been  left  by  erosion. 
This  in  some  cases  is  as  low  as  30  to  60  feet.  Where  it  is 
under  cover  and  protected,  its  true  thickness  for  that  lo- 
cality is  of  course  obtainable,  and  it  does  not  entirely  go 
under  cover  until  it  passes  an  east-west  line,  which  ap- 
proximates the  northern  boundaries  of  Wolfe,  Magoffin, 
Johnson  and  Martin  counties.  In  northeastern  Kentucky, 
this  basal  group  of  Pennsylvania!!  sediments  known  as  the 
Lee  formations  consists  chiefly  of  a  heavy  conglomeratic 
sandstone  underlain  by  a  bed  of  dark  shale,  the  latter 
often  exhibiting  coal.  In  southeastern  Kentucky,  where 
the  maximum  thickness  of  the  conglomerate  is  about 
1,000  feet,  the  Lee  contains  several  seams  of  coal, 
with  at  least  three  strong,  massive  sandstones  separated 
by  beds  of  shale  and  sandy  shale.  Along  the  western 


90  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES   OF  KENTUCKY 


THE  CLIFF  FORMING  POTTSVILLE. 

This  is  a  characteristic  view  of  topography  along  the  western 
border  of  the  Eastern  Coal  Field,  in  the  oil  district.  Photo  by  W.  R. 
Jillson,  1918. 

border  of  the  Eastern  Coal  Field,  the  "Pottsville  Con- 
glomerate," in  its  basal  formation,  forms  the  striking, 
rugged  feature  of  the  topography,  and  is  seen  as  mas- 
sive conglomeratic  and  sandstone  cliffs  overlying  the 
Chester  and  Mauch  Chunk  groups.  In  southeastern  Ken- 
tucky, it  is  the  Pottsville  conglomerate  which  caps  the 
Pine  Mountain  throughout  its  extent,  and  has  not  only 
resulted  in  giving  it  its  present  contour,  but  has  really, 
through  its  erosion  resisting  qualities,  preserved  the 
mountain  at  its  present  height.  In  northeastern  Ken- 
tucky the  Pottsville  Conglomerate,  in  Green  and  Carter 
counties,  varies  from  30  to  100  feet,  in  northern  Morgan 
about  150,  in  Jackson  and  Menifee  300,  in  Wolfe  400,  in 
Estill  271,  in  Morgan  450,  in  Boyd  500,  in  Lawrence  250 
to  750,  in  Johnson  600  to  800,  in  Martin  600  to  1,000,  in 
Floyd  800  to  1,000,  in  Pike  800  to  1,000. 

The  "Pottsville  Conglomerate"  shows  three  dis- 
tinct sands,  "Beaver,"  "Horton"  and  "Pike,"  all  of 
which  are  petroliferous.  These  sands  have  their  best  de- 
velopment and  highest  petroliferous  character  in  the 
central  portion  of  the  eastern  coal  field,  that  is,  extend- 
ing from  southern  Martin  County  through  Floyd  into 


STRATIGRAPHY  AND  EVALUATION  91 


TILTED  BASAL  POTTSVILLE  (LEE)   CONGLOMERATE  AT  CREST 
OF  PINE  MOUNTAIN. 

The  view  is  to  the  southwest  from  an  altitude  of  1,800  feet  across 
the  Cumberland  River  Gap  just  above  Pineville,  Kentucky.  The  eroded 
Pine  Mountain  fault  scarp  begins  at  the  mountain  crest  and  continues 
to  the  right  out  of  the  picture— that  is  to  the  northwest.  The  heavy 
timber  in  the  lower  right  hand  portion  of  the  picture  obscures  the  ex- 
posed Mississippian  Limestones  and  shales.  Photo  by  W.  R.  Jillson, 
May  16,  1919. 

Knott  and  Breathitt,  and  farther  southwestward  into 
Leslie,  Clay  and  Knox.  The  thickness  of  these  sands 
is  variable,  ranging  from  50  to  230  feet  each.  The 
"Beaver,"  the  uppermost  of  the  three,  is  generally  thick- 
est and  frequently  shows  through  many  drillings  in  the 
Beaver  Creek  section,  from  which  the  type  occurrence 
comes  with  the  name,  the  maximum  thickness.  In  the 
Beaver  Creek  section  these  three  sands  produce  both 
oil  and  gas,  and  both  are  of  very  high  quality,  the  oil 
going  into  the  Cumberland  Pipe  Line  as  the  regulation 
Somerset  grade.  It  is  a  green  to  brown  green  fluid  crude, 
high  in  gasoline.  The  first  well  in  the  "Pottsville"  in 
the  Big  Sandy  Valley  was  drilled  in  by  Louis  H.  Gormley 
in  1892,  at  the  mouth  of  Salt  Lick  Creek  on  Bight  Beaver 
in  Floyd  County.  This  was  a  small  flowing  well  and 
served  as  the  nucleus  for  the  group  of  what  is  now  known 
as  the  Beaver  Creek  wells,  many  of  which  are  still  pro- 
ducing, including  the  original  well  known  as  the  Howard 


92  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES   OF  KENTUCKY 

Purchase,  No.  1.  The  oil  coming  from  "Pottsville" 
sandstone  is  not  uniform,  there  being  a  slight  difference 
in  the  oil  from  each  of  the  sands  even  where  the  cover 
is  good  and  thick  as  in  Floyd  County.  To  the  north  and 
northwest,  where  the  cover  is  thinnest  as  in  Magoffin  and 
Breathitt  counties,  these  sands  have  produced  at  much 
shallower  depths — the  pay  horizon  in  Magoffin  on  Burn- 
ing Fork  being  about  300  feet — but  the  oils  obtained  from 
these  shallow  horizons  has  always  been  black,  stiffly  flow- 
ing, with  a  very  low  Baume  gravity,  and  almost  entirely 
without  gasoline  content. 

While  the  "Pottsville"  may  still  be  regarded  as  an 
important  horizon  for  further  'prospecting,  it  is  certain 
that  if  a  high  gasoline  oil  is  being  sought  from  it,  the 
prospector  must  avoid  the  northeastern  and  western- 
most borders  of  the  eastern  coal  field.  He  must,  in  other 
words,  go  down  into  the  Eastern  Kentucky  geosyncline, 
which  passes  through  Breathitt  from  Clay  and  Knox, 
into  Magoffin  and  Floyd  and  Pike,  towards  the  northeast. 
It  is  very  possible  that  other  fields,  as  good  as  the  Floyd 
County  field,  may  be  developed  in  this  locality,  and  even 
farther  to  the  south,  where  the  thickening  of  the  strata, 
counteracting  the  raise  in  the  dip,  serves  to  keep  the 
basal  sands  well  protected  under  cover. 

THE  CRETACIOUS  AND  QUATERNARY  SYSTEMS 

In  the  Jackson  Purchase  region,  the  extreme  south- 
western part  of  the  State  of  Kentucky,  all  of  the  above 
described  rocks  dip  down  under  a  thick  cover  of  Cretace- 
ous and  Quaternary  sediments  both  of  which  are  monu- 
ments to  the  two  last  embayments  of  the  Gulf  of  Mexico 
over  this  portion  of  the  State.  Because  of  this  covering 
of  thick  and  more  recent  rock  strata  very  little  indeed  is 
known  of  the  oil  and  gas  sands  of  this  area.  As  indi- 
cated by  the  fact  that  little  is  known  of  the  subsurface 
geology  of  the  purchase  it  may  be  stated  briefly  that  this 
part  of  Kentucky  has  received  up  to  the  present  prac- 
tically no  oil  and  gas  development  at  all.  However,  there 
are  indications  that  this  large  area  will  receive  some 
drilling  attention  this  season  and  probably  next,  and  it 
is  possible  that  the  Cretaceous  and  lower  sediments  under 
this  region  may  be  found  to  have  productive  oil  sands 
here  as  they  have  elsewhere  in  the  United  States. 


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CHAPTER  VI. 


THE  GEOLOGY  OF  THE  OIL  AND  GAS  POOLS  OF 
KENTUCKY 


MAJOR  STRUCTURAL  FEATURES 

The  geology  of  oil  and  gas  in  the  State  of  Kentucky- 
is  simple  and  at  the  same  time  complex.  It  is  simple  in 
its  broad  stratigraphic  conceptions.  It  is  complex  in 
its  details  of  major  and  minor  structure,  porosity,  and 
water  pressures — hydraulic  and  hydrostatic.  Strati- 
graphically,  oil  and  gas  production  is  secured  in  Ken- 
tucky in  ascending  order  from  the  middle  Ordovician 
Limestones,  up  through  the  Silurian  Limestones  and  in- 
tercalated shales,  the  Devonian  Limestone  (Corniferous), 
the  Devonian  Black  Shale,  the  Mississippian  Sandstones 
and  Limestones,  and  the  Lower  Pennsylvanian  (Potts- 
ville)  Sandstone  and  Conglomerates.  No  oil  production 
is  secured  in  Kentucky  lower  than  the  Ordovician  which 
as  it  comes  from  the  wells  in  Cumberland  County  near 


Falls  on  Russell  Fork,  Dickenson  County,  Virginia.  Crest  of  the 
Pine  Mountain  Anticline.  The  view  is  just  across  the  Pike  County, 
Kentucky  line.  Photo  by  W.  R.  Jillson,  April  5,  1919 


OIL  AND  GAS  POOLS  OF  KENTUCKY  97 

Burkesville  is  probably  the  lowest  oil  horizon  strati- 
graphically  in  the  whole  world,  nor  above  the  Pottsville. 
The  latter  rocks,  with  the  exception  of  a  few  isolated 
ridge  outlayers  of  the  Alleghany  formation  in  the  east- 
ernmost part  of  Kentucky,  and  the  mantel  of  Creta- 
ceous and  Cenozoic  sediments  in  the  Jackson  Purchase 
region  in  extreme  Western  Kentucky,  are  the  highest 
stratigraphically  in  the  State. 

The  combination  of  major  and  minor  structure,  poro- 
sity, and  water  conditions  as  found  by  the  prospecting 
bit  are  innumerable  and  each  one,  it  may  be  said,  is  al- 
most always  special  to  the  locality  in  which  it  is  develop- 
ed. In  this  respect  it  may  be  added,  as  a  correlated  state- 
ment, that  the  same  conditions  of  structure,  porosity  and 
subsurface  water,  are  rarely  found  equal  in  any  two  loca- 
tions. The  conception  of  oil  and  gas  accumulation  in 
Kentucky,  is  in  a  broad  way,  special  to  the  State,  since 
the  major  portion  of  the  oil  as  now  known  in  Kentucky, 
is  secured  from  limestone  horizons.  The  occurrence  of 
oil  in  a  limestone  precludes  the  greater  part  of  the  gen- 
eral conceptions  attending  oil  and  gas  accumulations 
where  it  is  found,  as  in  most  instances,  in  typical  sand- 
stones. In  Kentucky,  then,  there  exists  the  unusual 
terminology  among  drillers  of  "oil  sand"  or  " pay  sand" 
used  in  reference  generally  to  either  the  Onondagan  or 
Niagaran  Limestones  in  their  porous  strata,  although 
they  are  not  sandstone  strata  at  all. 

The  geologic  structure  of  Kentucky  is  readily 
understandable.  The  central  Blue  Grass  portion  is  a 
large  flat  dome,  often  spoken  of  as  the  Lexington  Dome, 
on  a  much  larger  structure  known  as  the  Cincinnati  Arch 
or  Anticline.  This  large  structure  extends  from 
northwestern  Ohio  and  Indiana  southwestward  into  Ken- 
tucky where  it  reaches  a  high  point  in  the  vicinity  of 
Nicholasville,  thence  descending  along  its  major  axis  to 
a  saddle  which  is  found  in  Adair,  Kussell  and  Casey 
counties,  Kentucky.  The  major  axis  of  the  Cincinnati 
Anticline  then  rises  and  continues  on  to  the  southwest 
culminating  in  another  dome  or  high  section  in  the  vicini- 
ty and  to  the  south  of  Nashville,  Tennessee.  Falling  off 
to  the  southeast  and  to  the  northwest  the  rocks  of  the 
eastern  and  western  sections  of  the  State  go  into  syn- 

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elinal  basins  which  are  centered  in  the  Eastern  and 
Western  Coal  Fields.  In  southeastern  Kentucky  the 
Pine  Mountain  Fault,  the  result  of  the  breaking  along 


VERTICAL  SANDSTONE  AND  SHALE,   PINE   MOUNTAIN  FAULT. 
On  east  side  of  Louisville  &  Nashville  Railroad  cut  southeast  of 
the  mouth  of  Straight  Creek,  Bell  County,  Ky.   Photo  by  W.  R.  Jillson, 
May  16,  1919. 

the  crest  of  a  northeast,  southwest  fold,  gives  the  strata 
of  the  southeasternmost  portion  of  the  State  a  north- 
west dip.  The  doming  associated  with  the  faulting  of 
Western  Kentucky,  northeast  of  the  Cumberland  and 
Tennessee  rivers,  has  resulted  in  giving  the  rocks  of  this 
section  a  dip  to  the  northeast.  A  broad  conception  then 
of  the  structural  geology  of  Kentucky  would  be  a  series 
of  folds  beginning  at  the  Virginia  line  in  Eastern  Ken- 
tucky, dropping  into  the  Eastern  Kentucky  geosyncline, 


102       OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

rising  over  the  crest  of  the  Great  Cincinnati  Arch,  drop- 
ping again  into  the  syncline  of  the  Western  Coal  Fields, 
and  rising  again  to  the  Cumberland  and  Tennessee  rivers 
and  then  falling  off  to  the  west  and  southwest  to  unknown 
depths  under  the  Jackson  Purchase  Eegion.  This  con- 
ception of  the  structure  of  Kentucky  is  fundamentally 
important  to  an  understanding  of  the  oil  and  gas  fields 
of  this  State  as  it  has  been  the  important  factor  in  in- 
fluencing the  movement  of  petroleum  from  its  original 
position,  and  the  concentration  of  petroleum  in  com- 
mercially important  pools. 

Somewhat  less  important  from  a  structural  stand- 
point but  very  important  from  a  standpoint  of  the  loca- 
tion of  the  main  producing  pools  of  Kentucky  is  the  lo- 
cation of  an  east-west  line  of  minor  structure  in  Ken- 
tucky. This  structure  has  been  called  in  Eastern  Ken- 
tucky the  Irvine-Paint  Creek- Warfield  Fault  and  Fold.  In 
Central  Kentucky  from  Irvine  west  to  New  Haven  it  has 
been  designated  as  the  Kentucky  River  fault  and  fold. 
From  New  Haven  westward  through  Leitchfield  to  Shaw- 
neetown  in  westernmost  Union  County  it  has  been  called 
the  Rough  Creek  Fault  and  Fold.  Although  all  of  this 
minor  structure  has  not  been  worked  out  and  definitely 
connected  up,  there  is  little  doubt  but  that  the  same 
crustal  forces  were  responsible  for  the  development  of 
these  three  segments  along  a  unit  line  of  deformation. 
This  east-west  extension  of  small  structure  is  directly 
responsible  for  the  location  of  the  Warfield-Inez  gas  field, 
the  Paint  Creek  gas  field,  the  Cannel  City,  Campton,  Big 
Sinking,  Irvine,  Station  Camp,  Eoss  Creek,  Ashley,  and 
associated  polls  in  Eastern  Kentucky  as  well  as  the  Hart- 
ford and  Leitchfield  pools  in  Western  Kentucky. 

DETAILED  DISCUSSION  OF  SEPAKATE  OIL  AND  GAS  POOLS 

In  the  State  of  Kentucky  there  are  at  the  present 
time  forty-six  separate  and  commercially  important  oil 
and  gas  pools.  These  are  located  principally  in  the  East- 
ern Coal  Field  on  either  side  of  the  Irvine-Paint  Creek- 
Warfield  Fault  and  Fold;  in  southern  Kentucky,  in 
Knox,  Wayne,  Barren,  Allen  and  Warren  counties;  and 
in  Western  Kentucky,  along  the  Rough  Creek  Fault  and 
Fold  in  Grayson  and  Ohio  counties.  Two  small  pools 


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OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 


alone  adjoin  the  Ohio  river  in  Western  Kentucky  in 
Meade  and  Breckinridge  counties.  Using  the  local  field 
name,  a  brief  statement  of  the  geology  of  each  separate 
pool  is  given  below,  the  pools  being  arranged  in  crescen- 
tric  order  from  northwest  to  south  to  northeast. 

(1)  Clover  Port  Gas  Field. — This  is  an  old  gas 
pool  located  in  the  northwestern  portion  of  Breckinridge 
County  adjoining  the  Ohio  river.  The  pool  is  of  diminish- 
ing commercial  importance.   Production  was  secured  at 
shallow  depths  from  the  Warsaw  Formation  in  the  Miss- 
issippian  System.    The  structure  of  this  gas  field  is  a 
small  dome. 

(2)  Rock  Haven  Gas  Field.— The  gas  from  this 
field  which  is  commonly  known  as  the  Meade  County  field 
from  its  location  in  eastern  Meade  County  adjoining  the 
Ohio  river,  comes  from  a  thin  sand  inclusion  in  the  De- 
vonian Black  Shale.    The  gas  production  of  this  field, 
never  large,  is  of  decreasing  importance. 

(3)  Hartford  Oil  Pool. — The  oil  in  this  pool  is  se- 
cured from  above  the  Devonian  Black  Shale.  The  pool  is 


HARTFORD  OIL  POOL  STORAGE. 

Besides  the  Tank  House  this  view  shows  Swell  well  No.  1.  From 
four  small  wells  in  this  pool  167  tank  cars  have  been  shipped  to  date. 
Photo  by  W.  R.  Jillson,  1918. 


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105 


PART  OF  THE  HARTFORD  OIL  POOL. 

Reading  from  left  to  right  the  wells  are:  Swell  No.  1,  drilled  to 
1,780  feet  in  1914;  Howard  No.  2,  drilled  to  1,760  feet  in  1913;^  and: 
Vance  No.  1,  drilled  to  1,780  feet  in  1914.  Photo  by  W.  R.  Jillson. 

small  and  of  recent  development  in  the  central  portion  j 
of  the  Ohio  County.  Its  structure  is  associated  with  that ' 
of  the  Eough  Creek  Fault  and  Fold. 

(4)  Caneyville  Oil  Pool. — This  pool  is  located  in 
southwestern  Grayson  County.    Oil  is  secured  from  the 
base  of  the  Mississippian  series,  chiefly  from  the  Waver- 
ly.    The  structure  is    developed   by   the    Rough    Creek 
Fault  and  Fold. 

(5)  Leitch field  Oil  and  Gas  Field.— The  history  of 
this  oil  and  gas  field  is  recent.  Gas  production  is  secured 
from  the  Major  sand  of  the  Waverly  limestones  of  the 
Mississippian.  The  structure  is  a  strong  half  dome  de- 
veloped by  the  Rough  Creek  Fault. 

(6)  Bear  Creek  Gas  Field. — Located  in  northern 
Edmonson  County,  this  gas  pool  is  of  recent  development 
on  a  small  dome. 

(7)  Diamond  Springs  Gas  Field. — Gas  was  secured 
at    Diamond    Springs  from   stray   sands    on    a    mono- 
clinal  dip  or  terrace  in  the  Cypress  and  Waverly  Forma- 


106 


OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 


tions.    The  field  is  located  in  the  northwestern  part  of 
Logan  County. 

(8)  Jewell  Oil  Pool. — This  pool  is  located  in  the 
northernmost  part  of  Allen  County  and  in  what  is  known 
as  the  "Jewell  Bend"  of  Barren  Eiver.   Oil  production 
is  secured  from  the    Onondaga    or    Corniferous    Lime- 
stone on  a  small  anticline. 

(9)  Gainesville  Oil  Pool. — This  is  the  northern- 
most pool  of  outstanding  importance  in  northern  Allen 
County  and  is  located  just  west  of  Gainesville  on  several 
associated  small  structures.    The  oil  is  anticlinal.    Pro- 
duction is  obtained  from  the  Onondagan  and  Niagaran 
Limestones. 


OIL  STORAGE  ON  W.  M.  FOSTER  LEASE. 

This  is  a  fine  producing  property,  in  the   south  eastern  part  of 
Gainesville  Pool,  Allen  County.    Photo  by  W.  R.  Jillaon,  July  10,  1919. 

(10)  Butlersville  Pool. — This  small  pool  is  located 
about  seven  miles  west  of  Scottsville  in  Allen  County. 
Production  is  anticlinal.  The  oil  horizon  is  the  Onondaga 
Limestone.    The  drilling  is  shallow. 

(11)  Halfway  Oil  Pool. — About  a  mile  and  a  half 
northeast  of  Halfway,  and  about  seven  miles  northwest  of 
the  Scottsville,  in  Allen  County,  there  is  a  rapidly  de- 
veloping oil  pool  which  has  been  designated  by  the  name 
of  the  adjoining  post  office  of  Halfway.    The  wells  in 


OIL  AND  GAS  POOLS  OF  KENTUCKY 


107 


this  pool  are  not  large  but  are  steady  and  consistent  pro- 
ducers. The  oil  is  anticlinal  and  is  secured  from  the 
Onondaga  and  Niagara  Limestones.  The  wells  are 
shallow. 

(12)  Eodemer  and    Petroleum    Oil  Pools. — These 
pools  are  located  respectively  three  and  five  miles  south- 
west of  Scottsville,  Allen  County.    They  include  many 
pools  of  small  size  which  must  remain  unnamed.  One  of 
these  properties  deserves  mention  since  it  has  had  gusher 
production.    This  is  the  Angie  McReynolds  lease.    The 
oil  here  is  controlled  by  porosity  rather  than    simple 
structure  and  is  both    anticlinal    and    synclinal.      Gas 
pressure  is  an  important  factor.  Production  comes  from 
the  Niagaran  Limestone.    Shallow  drilling  obtains. 

(13)  Adolphus  Oil  Pool. — The  Adolphus    and   as- 
sociated pools  are  located  about  seven  and  one-half  miles 


A  BARREN  COUNTY  WELL  FLOWING  NATURALLY 
The  J.  R.  Winlock  No.  3  (flowing)  well  drilled  in  by  the  J.  M. 
Karl  Oil  Company.  March  14,  1919.  Located  on  the  northward  exten- 
sion of  the  Steffy  Pool  on  the  Lower  Road  to  Bowling  Green,  three 
and  one-half  miles  southeast  of  Glasgow,  Barren  County,  Ky.  Photo 
by  W.  R.  Jillson,  March  31,  1919. 

Note: — This  well  flowed  light  green  oil  44.6  Baume  during  a 
half  hour  gauge  by  the  writer,  one  barrel  every  five  minutes.  The  well 
made  considerable  gas,  but  no  water. 


108       OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

southwest  of  Scottsville,  Allen  County,  close  to  the  Ten- 
nessee line.  The  oil  is  both  anclinal  and  synclinal  due 
to  lack  of  water  in  some  places.  Production  comes  from 
the  Niagarian  Limestone.  Shallow  drilling  obtains. 

(14)  Scottsville  Oil  Pool. — The  Scottsville  oil  pool 
is  really  a  group  of  small  oil  pools  developed  on  a  num- 
ber of  small  structures.  Production  is  for  the  most  part 
anticlinal  and  is  secured  from  the  Onondaga  and  Nia- 
garan  limestones.    The  wells  are  shallow  and  some  of 
them  have  shown  large  flush  production  with  gas. 

(15)  Steffi/  Oil  Pool. — This  old  oil  pool  which  is 
now  undergoing  redrilling  and  extension  to  the  north- 
east and  southwest  is  located  about  five  miles  southwest 
of  Glasgow  on  the  lower  Bowling  Green  road.  The  oil  is 
anticlinal  with  strong  gas  head  in  some  wells.   Produc- 
tion comes  from  the  Ononodaga  Limestone    and    flows 
natural  in  a  few  of  the  wells.  The  drilling  is  shallow. 

(16)  Oil  City  Oil  Pool.— This  pool  is  a  number  of 
years  old  but  it  is  at  present  the  center  of  further  pros- 
pecting. It  is  located  about  five  miles  northwest  of  Glas- 
'.gow  in  Barren  County.  The  drilling  is  shallow,  and  in  a 
•few  of  the  wells  small  Amber  oil  production  is  now  be- 
ing pumped  from  restricted  stray  sands.  These  are  just 
<above  the  Devonian  Black  Shale  in  the  lower  part  of  the 
Mississippian  limestones,  the  Fort  Payne  and  Warsaw. 

(17)  Hiseville  Gas  Field. — The  Barren  County  gas 
field  now  commonly  known  as  the  Hiseville  Gas  field  is 
located  about  nine  miles  northeast  of  Glasgow.   A  num- 
ber of  very  good  gas  wells  are  located  in  this  field  and  it 
promises  to  be  important  as  it  is  further  proven.   It  is 
doubtful  if  the  Onondaga  is  (present  here.  The  production 
is  probably  secured  from  the  Niagaran  limestones  and 
perhaps  lower  horizons.  The  gas  production  is  dependent 
upon  structure. 

!  (18)  Oskamp  Oil  Pool. — The  Oskamp  pool  located 
about  five  miles  south  of  Glasgow  in  Barren  County  pro- 
duces some  gas  and  considerable  oil,  all  from  small  wells. 
The  production  comes  from  the  Onondaga,  which  is  thin, 
and  the  Niagaran  below.  The  drilling  is  shallow. 

(19)  Wayne  County  Associated  OH  Pools. — These 
associated  pools  were  discovered  and  the  territory  was 
proven  a  number  of  years  ago.  The  field  has  repeatedly 


OIL  AND  GAS  POOLS  OF  KENTUCKY  109 

been  redrilled.  The  oil  pools  are  distributed  widely  over 
Wayne  County  and  extend  eastward  into  McCreary 
County.  The  production  is  both  deep  and  shallow.  It  is 
usually  anticlinal.  The  Mississippian  sediments  belong- 
ing to  the  Waverly  group  give  the  following  productive 
sands:  Stray,  Mt.  Pisgah,  Beaver,  Otter,  Cooper,  Slick- 
ford.  The  Upper  and  Lower  Ordovician  Limestones  give 
the  Upper  and  the  Lower  Sunnybrook  and  the  Deep 
"Sand"  of  Wayne  County. 

(20)  Buck  Creek  Oil  Pool.— The  Buck  Creek  Oil 
pool  is  located  about  three  miles  southeast  of  Highland 
and  about  four  miles  due  east  of  Kings  Mountain  in  Lin- 
coln County.  The  production  is  anticlinal  and  is  secured 
from  the  Onondaga  Limestone  at  a  very  shallow  depth. 
Pipe  line  connections  are  made  to  the  Q.  &  C.  R.  B.  at 
Kings  Mountain. 

(21)  Little  RicUand  Creek  Oil  and  Gas  Field.— 
This  old  oil  and  gas  field  now  being  redrilled  and  extend- 
ed is  located  about  four  miles  north  of  Barbourville, 
Knox  County.   The  field  is  located  in  the  Eastern  Ken- 
tucky geosyncline  and  oil  is  secured   from  the   Wages, 
Jones,  Epperson  and  Knox  sands  of  the  Pottsville  series. 
Drilling  is  usually  mediumly  deep  but  generally  under  a 
thousand  feet.    Very  little  deep  drilling  has  been  done 
in  this  locality  and   little   is   known   about    the    lower 
"  sands." 

(22)  Burning  Springs  Gas  Field. — This  field  is  of 
recent  development  and  is  located  in  northwestern  Clay 
County.   Production  is  secured  from  the  Big  Injun  and 
associated  sands  of  the  Mississippian  system.  The  struc- 
ture is  a  doming  anticline. 

(23)  The  Island  Creek  Oil  and  Gas  Field.— Of  re- 
cent date  development  this  field  promises  to  be  an  im- 
portant one  when  .its  full  extent  is  known.  It  is  located  in 
southwestern   Owsley    County,   on   anticlinal  structure. 
Production  is  secured  from  the  Mississippian  and  Devon- 
ian sediments. 

(24)  Frozen  Creek  Oil  and  Gas  Field.— The  Frozen 
Creek  Anticline  sometimes  called  the  Wilhurst  Anticline 
is  responsible  for  this  field.   The  structure  is  located  in 
the  northwestern  Breathitt  County.   Production  is  pro- 
cured from  the  Onondaga  Limestone. 


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OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 


(25)  Ross  Creek  Oil  Pool— This  small  but  highly 
productive  oil  pool  is  located  on  a    small    anticline    in 
southeastern  Estill  County.  Very  porus  conditions  in  tho 
Onondaga  Limestone  are  chiefly  responsible  for  the  oil 
accumulation.   The  field  has  been  over  drilled  by  greedy 
operators.   Shallow  drilling  depths  exist  in  this  pool. 

(26)  Station  Camp  Oil  Pool— The  Station  Camp 
Oil  pool  is  located  on  Station  Camp  Creek,  about  five 
miles  south  of  Irvine  in  Estill  County.    The  production 
is  secured  from  the  Onondaga  Limestone,  which  is  both 
anticlinal  and  shallow  in  this  locality. 

(27)  Irvine  Oil  Pool. — This  famous  oil  pool  is  the 
parent,  from  a  discovery  standpoint,  of  the  present  large 
number  of  oil  pools  in  this  section  of  Kentucky.  Drilling 


THE   MOST   CELEBRATED   KENTUCKY   OIL   FIELD. 
This  sketch  map  of  the  Estill,  Lee,  Powell,  Wolfe,  Morgan,  Meni- 
fee,  Bath  and  Rowan  county  district  shows  in  outline  the  most  im- 
portant producing  oil  and  gas  fields  in  the  State  of  Kentucky. 


OIL  AND  GAS  POOLS  OF  KENTUCKY  111 

was  first  done  in  this  section  in  1903  in  very  shallow  wells 
near  Irvine  and  Ravenna.  Later  extension  of  the  Irvine 
pool  to  the  east  developed  the  possibilities  of  deeper  pros- 
pecting in  this  region.  Production  is  anticlinal  and  is  se- 
cured from  the  Onondaga  and  Niagaran  limestones  which 
are  irregularly  porus. 

(28)  Big  Sinking  Oil  Pool— The  Big  Sinking  Oil 
pool  is  justifiably  the  most  important  oil   pool   in   the 
whole  State  of  Kentucky.   Very  porus  conditions  in  the 
Onondagan  and  Niagaran  Limestones  which  are  the  pro- 
ductive "sands"  coupled  with  a  number  of  small  asso- 
ciated anticlines  and  water  pressures    from    southeast 
have  combined  to  make  this  the  most  productive  oil  pool 
in  the  State.   The  drilling  is  under  one  thousand  feet  for 
the  first  "pay"  but  deeper  wells  have  been  drilled.   The 
pool  is  located  in  central  Lee  County. 

(29)  The  Ashley  Oil  Pool — This  pool  was  develop- 
ed in  1918,  as  the  result  of  wildcat  extension  east  of  the 
Irvine  pool.  Production  is  secured  from  a  very  porous 
"pay"  in  the  Onondaga  Limestone  on  structure.    The 
most  of  the  wells  in  this  'part  have  been  large  producers. 

(30)  Campion  Oil  Pool — This  pool  is  located  in 
the  west  central  part  of  Wolfe  County,  near  Campton. 
Oil  production  is  secured  from  the  Onondaga  limestone 
at  medium  depths.    The  structure  of  this  field  is  anti- 
clinal. 

(31)  Still  Water  Oil  Pool— The  Still  Water    Oil 
pool  is  located  in  the  north  central  part  of  Wolfe  County, 
south  of  the  Irvine  Paint  Creek  Fault.    The  production 
is  secured  from  the  Onondaga,  and  structure  is  anticlinal. 

(32,  Cannel  City  Pool. — This  oil  and  gas  pool  is 
located  in  southern  Morgan  County,  south  of  the  Irvine- 
Paint  Creek  Fault.  Structure  is  anticlinal  and  the  drill- 
ing is  of  medium  depth.  This  pool  was  brought  in  with 
gusher  production  several  years  ago,  from  a  few  wells. 
The  producing  sand  is  the  Onondaga  limestone. 

(33)  Menifee  Gas  Field.— This  Gas  field  is  located 
in  the  southwestern  Menifee  and  northeastern  Powell 
counties.  The  structure  and  gas  production  is  secured 
from  the  Onondaga  limestone.  The  structure  is  mono- 
clinal. 


112       OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

(34)  Olympia  Oil  Pool. — This  small  pool  is  located 
in  the  southeastern  part  of  Bath   County.    Drilling  is 
shallow.  The  structure  is  small.  Production  is  from  the 
Onondaga  limestones. 

(35)  Ragland  Oil  Pool— The  Ragland  pool  is  lo- 
cated in  Bath,  Rowan  and  Menifee  counties,  on  the  Lick- 
ing river.  It  is  one  of  the  oldest  pools  in  the  eastern  part 
of  Kentucky.    Production  is  monoclinal,  and  is  secured 
from  the  Onondaga  limestone,  at  a  shallow  depth.  The  oil 
is  dark  and  low  gravity. 

(36)  Fallsburg  Oil  Pool— The  Fallsburg  Oil  pool 
is  located  in  northern  Lawrence  County.   The  structure 
is  close  to  a  deep  syncline.   Production  is  secured  from 
the  Berea  sand  at  a  medium  depth. 


OIL  FIELDS  OF  LAWRENCE  COUNTY,  KY. 

These  are  the  most  important   in  north-eastern  Kentucky.    Pro- 
duction is  secured  in  the  Berea  Grit. 

(37)  Busseyville  Oil  Pool. — This  pool  is  located  in 
central  Lawrence  County,  west  of  Louisa.    The  field  is 
located  on  a  monocline  just  south  of  a  deep  syncline,  and 
is  controlled  by  minor  structures.  Production  is  secured 
at  medium  depth  from  the  Berea. 

(38)  George's  Creek  Oil  Pool.— Geprge's    Creek 
Oil  pool  is  located  in  southern  Lawrence  County.   It  is 
a  small  pool,  lying  on  monoclinal  dip  to  the  north.  Pro- 
duction is  secured  from  the  Berea  and  Wier  sands. 


OIL  AND  GAS  POOLS  OF  KENTUCKY  113 

(39)  Laurel  Creek  Oil  and  Gas  Field.— The  field  is 
located  in  the  northwestern  part  of  Johnson  County  and 
southwestern  part  of  Lawrence    County,    on    the    pro- 
nounced Laurel  Creek  dome.   Gas  production  is  secured 
on  the  high  points.   Oil  is  secured  on  the  northern  flank 
from  the  Wier  and  Berea  sands.  Drilling  is  to  a  moderate 
depth. 

(40)  Paint  Creek  Oil  and  Gas  Field.— This  im- 
portant field  is  of  recent  development  and  is  located  on 
Paint  Creek  dome,  sometimes  called  the  Mine  Fork  dome 
on  the  Morgan  and  Johnson  County  line.    It  is  located 
on  the  high  doming  structure  just  south  of  the  Irvine- 
Paint  Creek  Fault.    Up  until   recently    this     structure 
looked  like  a  gas  field  but  with  the  bringing  in  of  an  oil 
well  during  this  summer  down  on  the  south  flank,  its  im- 
portance as  an  oil  territory  is  being  established.    The 
production  is  found  in  the  Wier  sand  of  the  Mississippian, 
at  about  thirteen  to  fifteen  hundred  feet. 

(41)  Ivy  ton  Oil  Field. — This  small  pool  is  located 
in  central  southern  Magoffin  County  on  the  Ivyton  dome. 
The  production  is  from  shallow  Pottsville  sands  and  the 
deeper  Wier  sand.  The  Pottsville  oil  is  dark,  low  gravity, 
and  flows  stiffly.    The  Wier  sand  oil  is  green,  of  high 
gravity,  and  flows  freely. 

(42)  Beaver  Creek  Oil  Pool. — This  is  the  oldest 
pool  in  Eastern  Kentucky,  flowing  production  having 
been  drilled  in  at  the  mouth  of  Salt    Creek,    on    right 
Beaver  Creek  in  1892.   The  production  is  synclinal  and 
is  secured  from  four  definite  sands,  which  are  Beaver, 
Horton,  Pike  and  Maxon.    The  first  three  are  in  the 
Pottsville  Conglomerate.    The  Maxon  is  in  the  Mauch 
Chunk.  Drilling  is  to  a  maximum  depth  of  one  thousand 
feet. 

(43)  Beaver  Creek  Gas  Field.— This  field  is  located 
in  Floyd  and  Knott  counties  on  Beaver  Creek  and  its 
branches.    Production  is  anticlinal   and  is  secured  from 
the  Beaver,  Horton  and  Pike  of  the  Pottsville;  from  the 
Maxon,  Big  Lime,  Big  Injun,  of  the  Mississippian  sys- 
tem ;  and  from  the  Devonian  Black  Shale.   Gas  is  secured 
at  various  depths  as  indicated  by   this   long   range    of 
sands.    The  deepest  production  is    found    on    the    left 
Beaver  Creek  at  two  thousand  feet. 


114       OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

(44)  Inez    Gas   Field. — This    field    is     sometimes 
called  the  Martin  county  field.     Large  gas    production 
which  has  been  drilled  in  since  1892  is  secured  in  the 
anticlinal  position,  from  the  Big  Lime  and  Big  Injun  of 
the  Mississippian  system.  Drilling  is  to  a  depth  of  from 
one  thousand  to  fifteen  hundred  feet. 

(45)  Moulder  Oil  Pool.— This  is  the  latest   of  im- 
portant oil  pools  in  southern  Kentucky.   It  is  located  in 
the  extreme  southeastern  portion  of  Warren  county,  ad- 
joining Barren  county  and  also  Barren  river.  Phenome- 
nally large  production  for  the  state  of  Kentucky  was  se- 
cured from  one  or  two  wells.  This  is  a  new  pool  in  which 
salt  water  conditions,  as  well  as  the  gas  are  of  import- 
ance.    Production  is  secured  on  the  eastern  dip  of  the 
Onondaga  Limestone,  which  is  very  porous  in  places  in 
this  pool. 

(46)  The  Green  Hill  Oil  PooZ.— Production  in  the 
Green  Hill  Pool  of  Warren  County  comes    from   about 
thirty  wells  drilled  slightly  to  the  northeast  of  Green 
Hill  postoffrce.    The  structure  has  not  been  determined. 
Oil   is  secured  from  four  ' '  porous-pays ' '  in  the  Onondaga 
and  Niagara.  Drilling  is  to  a  depth  of  about  410  to  450 
feet. 


TEMPLE  HILL  ANTICLINE,  BARREN  CO.,  KY. 
The  view  shows  the  creetal  fold  of  the  structure  and  was  taken 
at  the  Big  Bend  of  Skeggs  Creek  on  the  Smith  farm.     The  strata  be- 
long in  the  Fort  Payne  group  of  the  Mississippian  system.  Photo  by 
Chas.  Butts,  June,  1919. 


CHAPTER  VII. 


GEOGRAPHIC  DISTRIBUTION  OF  OIL  AND  GAS 
IN  KENTUCKY. 

Many  newcomers  as  well  as  natives  of  the  State  of 
Kentucky  are  unfamiliar  with  the  location  of  the  oil  and 
gas  fields  of  this  State,  even  within  general  limits.  The 
geography  of  oil  and  gas  production,  and  the  geography 
of  the  probably  productive  oil  and  gas  strata,  is  a  sub- 
ject that  is  but  very  slightly  clarified  in  the  minds  of 
most  people.  With  the  exception  of  those  who  have  made 
a  special  study  of  the  matter,  which  group,  though  small 
and  select,  includes  the  highest  tyipe  of  oil  operator,  most 
casually  interested  persons  do  not  understand  that  there 
is  a  vast  difference  from  the  standpoint  of  oil  and  gas 
recovery,  between  the  various  counties  in  Kentucky. 
Unfortunately  it  is  not  given  to  all  to  see  the  sound  geo- 
logic reasons  for  this  differing  importance  as  between 
various  parts  of  the  State. 

It  is  a  matter  of  simple  substantiation,  however,  that 
these  divisions  do  exist  and  for  this  reason  it  becomes 
one  of  importance  to  draw  the  line  between  them.  In  a. 
broad  way  the  State  of  Kentucky  is  divided  into  seven 
distinct  regions  on  a  basis  of  geology,  These  are:  (I)1 
The  Eastern  Coal  Field,  (2)  The  Knobs  Crescent 
(enclosing  the  central  Blue  Grass),  (3)  The  Central  Blue 
Grass,  (4)  The  Central-Southern  Limestone  Region, 
(includes  the  "Pennyrile"),  (5)  The  Western  Coai 
Field,  (6)  The  Western  Faulted,  Lead,  Zinc  and  Fluors- 
par Section,  and  (7)  The  Jackson  Purchase.  Happily 
the  geographic  distribution  of  oil  and  gas  productive- 
strata  is  closely  tied  into  this  division  of  Kentucky  hit- 
seven  parts.  For  this  reason  the  use  of  these  divisions 
facilitates  the  discription  of  the  productive  and  mipn 
ductive  areas  in  the  State.  Within  general  limits,  four 
of  these  regions  may  be  said  to  be  productive  or  have 
productive  possibilities.  These  are:  (1)  The  Eastern 
Coal  Field,  (2)  The  Knobs  Crescent,  (4)  The  Central- 

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116       OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

Southern  Limestone  Region,  and  (5)  The  Western  Coal 
Field.  The  other  three,  the  (3)  The  Central  Blue  Grass, 
(6)  TheWestern  Faulted  Lead,  Zinc,  and  Fluorspar  sec- 
tion, and  (7)  The  Jackson  Purchase,  may  be  classified  as 
very  poorly  productive,  non-productive,  or  unknown. 

A  knowledge  of  the  location  of  any  small  area  within 
these  broader  limits  of  the  seven  larger  divisions  of  the 
State  will  assist  the  layman  in  forming  some  conclusions 
as  to  the  productive  possibilities  of  the  tract  in  which  he 
is  interested.  However,  to  give  still  greater  precision  to 
the  many  who  are  interested,  each  of  the  one  hundred  and 
twenty  counties  in  the  State  is  taken  up  separately. 
General  statements  concerning  its  location,  aerial  geo- 
logy, physiography,  drainage,  structural  location,  and 
oil  and  gas  development  or  possibilities  are  made.  These 
are  not  exhaustive  county  reports.  The  size  of  this  book 
disallows  all  except  summary  statements,  which  are 
intended  to  be  used  as  an  index  of  present  conditions 
and  future  possibilities.  The  counties  are  arranged 
below  in  alphabetical  order. 

DISCUSSION  OF  OIL  AND  GAS  IN  KENTUCKY 

AD  AIR — No.  1. 

LOCATION. — Southern  Central  Kentucky. 
SURFACE    GEOLOGY. — Mississippian      Limestones      and 
Shales,  Devonian  Black  Shale. 

PHYSIOGRAPHY. — Dissected  plain,  low  rolling  hills. 

DRAINAGE.— Russell  fork  of  Green  River,  Crocus  Creek 
of  Cumberland  River. 

STRUCTURAL  LOCATION.— West  side  of  saddle  of  the  Cin- 
cinnati Anticline.  This  county  contains  a  number  of 
small  structures. 

OIL  AND  GAS  DEVELOPMENT. — Oil  and  gas  develop- 
ments are  recent.  There  are  a  few  small  producing  wells 
in  the  county  and  considerable  drilling  is  now  going  for- 
ward. 

ALLEN — No.  2. 

LOCATION.— Southern-Central  Kentucky  adjoining  the 
Tennessee  line. 


DISTRIBUTION  OF  OIL  AND  GAS  117 

SUEFACE  GEOLOGY.  —  Mississippian  Limetones  and 
shales,  Devonian  Black  Shale,  Onondaga  Limestone, 
Silurian  (Niagara)  Limestone. 

PHYSIOGRAPHY. — Northwestern  sloping,  plain  dissected 
by  entrenched  meandering,  imperfect  drainage  with  sink 
holes,  in  northwestern  section. 

DRAINAGE. — Middle  Fork,  Trammel  Fork,  and  Bays 
Fork  of  Barren  Eiver. 

STRUCTURAL  LOCATION. — North  side  of  Nashville  Dome 
of  Cincinnati  arch,  normal  dip  to  the  northwest.  This 
county  has  a  great  many  small  folds  mostly  with  north- 
eastern and  southwestern  axes.  Where  these  folds 
occur  in  porous  places  of  the  Onondaga  Limestone  and 
sandy  places  of  the  Niagara,  limestone,  oil  is  generally 
found  in  commercial  quantities. 

OIL  AND  GAS  DEVELOPMENT. — A  large  amount  of 
development  has  taken  place  in  Allen  county.  There 
are  at  present  about  two  hundred  rigs  at  work  and  not 
less  than  two  thousand  wells  have  been  drilled.  The 


FIG.  1.  SKETCH  MAP  ALLEN  AND  ADJOINING  COUNTIES. 
As  shown  above  the  principle  Oil  and  Gas  Pools  of  Allen  county 
are:  1.  Gainesville;  2.  Bays  Fork;  3.  Butlersville,  4.  Scottsville;  5. 
Rodemer;  6.  Trammel  Creek;  7.  Petroleum;  8.  Adolphus;  9.  Rough 
Creek;  10.  East  Rodemer;  11.  Jewell;  12.  Moulder;  13.  Oil  City;  14. 
Steffy;  15.  Hiseville;  and,  16.  Oskamp. 


118       OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

most  important  wells  of  Allen  county  are  in  pools  at 
Gainesville,  Bays  Fork,  Butlersville,  Scottsville,  Rode- 
mer,  Trammel  Creek,  Petroleum,  Adolphus,  Bough 
Green,  East  Rodemer,  Motley,  Angie  McReynolds  and 
Jewell  Bend  of  the  Barren  River  in  the  northern  part  of 
the  county. 

Two  pipe  lines  connect  with  these  fields,  one  from 
Gainesville  pool  to  Bowling  Green,  the  Bowling  Green 
Pipe  Line  Co.,  inc.,  and  the  other  from  Gainesville  to 
Scottsville,  the  Indian  Refining  Company.  The  oil  from 
the  southern  section  of  Kentucky  is  taken  out  by  tank 
cars  over  the  Louisville  &  Nashville  Railroad.  The  prin- 
cipal producing  territory  in  Allen  county  is  in  the  cen- 
tral and  western  portions.  The  very  eastern  portion  of 
Allen  county,  so  far,  has  not  proven  productive. 

ANDERSON No.  3. 

LOCATION. — This  is  a  Blue  Grass  county,  and  because 
of  this  fact  is  not  important  from  the  standpoint  of  oil 
and  gas  prospecting.  There  is  no  oil  and  gas  develop- 
ment work  progressing  in  this  county  at  present. 

BALLAED — No.  4. 

LOCATION. — Ballard  county  is  situated  in  the  extreme 
western  part  of  the  State,  adjoining  the  Ohio  and  Mis- 
sissippi rivers.  This  county  is  in  the  Jackson  Purchase 
section  and  its  oil  possibilities  due  to  lack  of  develop- 
ment are  unknown. 

BARREN — No.  5. 
LOCATION. — Central-Southern  Kentucky. 

SURFACE  GEOLOGY. — Mississippian  Limestones  and 
Shales,  in  the  upland;  Devonian  Shale  and  Limestones 
in  some  creek  and  river  bottoms.  A  few  isolated  expos- 
ures of  Silurian  Limestones  occur  along  the  Barren 
River  above  and  below  the  mouth  of  Glovers  Creek. 

PHYSIOGRAPHY. — Northwestern  sloping  table  land, 
deeply  dissected  in  southwestern  portion. 


DISTRIBUTION  OP  OIL  AND  GAS 


119 


DRAINAGE. — Beaver  and  Skeggs  creeks  and  other  small 
tributaries  of  the  Barren  river. 


SOUTH  DIPPING  BEDS. 

View  is  at  the  spring  house  on  the  Pipp  farm  on  the  Burkes- 
ville  road  southeast  of  Glasgow.  The  photo  shows  the  southern  flank 
of  the  elongated  Anticline.  Photo  by  W.  R.  Jillson,  July  16,  1919. 

STRUCTURAL  LOCATION. — Western  flank  of  the  saddle 
of  Cincinnati  Anticline.  This  county  has  a  large  num- 
ber of  minor  anticlines,  whose  major  axes  lie  in  a  north- 
east and  southeastern  direction. 

OIL  AND  GAS  DEVELOPMENT. — There  is  considerable- 
new  and  old  development  in  this  county.  The  producing 
pools  are :  Steffey,  Oil ;  Oil  City,  Oil ;  Oskamp,  Oil ;  Hise- 
ville,  Gas.  Production  is  found  both  in  the  Onondaga 
and  Niagara  limestones.  A  small  amount  of  oil  is 
found  at  Oil  City  in  the  "stray  sand"  in  the  base  of  the 
Mississippian  limestones. 

BATH— No.  6. 
LOCATION. — Northeastern-Central  Kentucky. 

SURFACE  GEOLOGY. — The  surface  rocks  of  this  county  in 
ascending  order  are  Ordovician  Limestones,  Silurian 
Limestones,  Devonian  Limestones  and  Shales;  Missis- 
sippian Limestones. 


120 


OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 


PHYSIOGEAPHY. — Undulatory  topography  in  the  west- 
ern part  of  the  county,  Knobs  in  the  eastern  part  of  the 
county. 

DRAINAGE. — Licking  River. 

STRUCTURAL  LOCATION. — Well  up  on  the  southeastern 
flank  of  the  Lexington  Dome  of  the  Cincinnati  Anti- 
cline. This  county  contains  a  number  of  small  struc- 
tures, principally  anticlines. 

OIL  AND  GAS  DEVELOPMENT. — Bath  county  contains 
part  of  the  Ragland  Oil  field,  in  its  southeastern  extrem- 
ity. It  also  contains  the  Olympia  pool. 


TILTED  WAVERLY  SHALES,  PINEVILLE,  KY. 

The  view  is  from  the  Louisville  and  Nashville  tracks  looking  to- 
wark  the  northeast.    Photo  by  W.  R.  Jillson,  May  16,  1919. 


DISTRIBUTION  OF  OIL  AND  GAS  121 

BELL — No.  7. 

LOCATION. — Southeastern  Kentucky,  adjoining  the 
Tennessee  and  Virginia  lines. 

SURFACE  GEOLOGY. — Although  located  in  the  Eastern 
Coal  fields,  due  to  the  amount  of  sharp  folding  and 
faulting,  this  county  is  unimportant  from  an  Oil  and 
Gas  standpoint.  It  is  located  principally  in  a  deep 
Synclinal  structure  between  the  Pine  and  Cumberland 
Mountains. 

BOONE — No.  8. 

LOCATION. — The  northernmost  section  of  the  State. 
Adjoining  the  Ohio  river  and  State  lines. 

SURFACE  GEOLOGY.  — This  county  is  unimportant  from 
an  Oil  and  Gas  standpoint.  The  surficial  rocks  are 
Ordovician  Limestones. 

BOURBON — No.  9. 
LOCATION. — Central  Kentucky. 

SURFACE  GEOLOGY. — Bourbon  county  is  located  in  the 
Blue  Grass  section  of  the  State,  and  is  unimportant 
from  an  Oil  and  Gas  standpoint.  The  surficial  rocks 
are  Ordovician  Limestones. 

BOYD— No.  10. 

LOCATION. — Northeastern  Kentucky. 
SURFACE  GEOLOGY. — Coal  Measures. 
PHYSIOGRAPHY. — Dissected  table-land  and  river  plain. 

DRAINAGE. — Eastern  fork  of  the  Little  Sandy  river, 
and  small  tributaries  of  the  Big  Sandy  River  and  of  the 
Ohio  River. 

STRUCTURAL  LOCATION. — Well  down  on  the  eastern 
flank  of  the  Cincinnati  anticline.  As  worked  out  by  the 
coals  there  are  a  number  of  small  structures  in  this 
county. 

OIL  AND  GAS  DEVELOPMENT. — Quite  extensive  oil  and 
gas  developments  have  been  carried  forward  in  this 
county.  A  number  of  old  oil  and  gas  producing  wells 
have  been  drilled  in.  There  is  very  little,  if  any,  new 
work  going  on  in  this  county,  at  the  present  time. 


122       OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

BOYLE — No.  11. 

LOCATION. — Central  Kentucky. 

SURFACE  GEOLOGY. — Ordovician  Limestone,  Devonian 
Shales,  Mississippian  Limestones  and  Shales.  The 
Silurian  Limestones  are  missing. 

PHYSIOGRAPHY. — Dissected  table-land,  in  the  northern 
section;  Knobs  in  the  southern-central  region. 

DRAINAGE. — Small  tributaries  to  the  Salt  and  Ken- 
tucky Rivers. 

STRUCTURAL  LOCATION. — Southern  limb  of  the  Lexing- 
ton Dome  of  the  Cincinnati  Arch. 

OIL  AND  GAS  DEVELOPMENT. — A  few  wells  have  been 
drilled  for  oil  and  gas  in  Boyle  county  but  no  production 
has  been  secured.  There  is  no  prospecting  going  for- 
ward now  and  due  to  the  very  limited  area  covered  by 
the  Black  Shale  and  higher  formations  it  is  doubtful  if  it 
will  ever  produce  commercial  quantities  of  either  oil  or 
gas. 

BRACKEN — No.  12. 
LOCATION. — North-Central  Kentucky. 

SURFACE  GEOLOGY. — This  county  adjoins  the  Ohio 
Eiver  and  is  unimportant  from  an  Oil  and  Gas  stand- 
point due  to  the  fact  that  the  unproductive  Ordovician 
Limestones  are  at  the  surface. 

BREATHITT — No.  13. 
LOCATION. — Central-Eastern  Kentucky. 

SURFACE  GEOLOGY. — Coal  measures  of  the  Pennsyl- 
vanian  System. 

PHYSIOGRAPHY. — Dissected  northwestern  sloping  table 
lands. 

DRAINAGE. — North  and  Middle  Forks  of  the  Kentucky 
Eiver. 

STRUCTURAL  LOCATION. — Breathitt  county  is  bisected 
by  the  eastern  Kentucky  Geosyncline.  It  contains  six 
oil  and  gas  structures.  These  are  anticlines  and  domes 


DISTRIBUTION  OF  OIL  AND  GAS  123 

of  small  dimension  and  have  been  named  (1)  Frozen 
Creek  Anticline,  (2)  Cope's  Fork  Dome,  (3)  Quicksand 
Creek  Dome,  (4)  Leatherwood  anticline,  (5)  Lost  Creek 
Dome,  (6)  Jackson  anticline. 

OIL  AND  GAS  DEVELOPMENT. — This  county  has  wit- 
nessed considerable  Oil  and  Gas  development  within  the 
last  three  years  and  a  number  of  wells  are  now  being 
drilled  within  its  boundaries.  Production  of  Oil  in 
small  quantities  has  been  proven  on  the  Frozen  Creek 
Anticline,  Copes  Fork  Dome  and  Quicksand  Creek 
Dome.  The  greater  portion  of  this  county  is  yet 
unproven.  A  number  of  dry  holes  have  been  drilled. 

Several  million  cubic  feet  of  gas  has  been  drilled  in 
in  Breathitt  County,  especially  in  the  northern  part. 


NORTH-WESTERN   KENTUCKY   OIL   AND   GAS   FIELDS. 

The  Meade   (1)   and  Breckinridge   (2)   county  fields  produce  gas 
and  are  old  in  development.  The  Ohio  (3)  county  district  produces  oil. 


124       OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

BRECKINRIDGE — No.  14. 

LOCATION. — Northwestern  part  of  Kentucky,  adjoin- 
ing the  Ohio  Eiver. 

SURFACE  GEOLOGY. — Principally  Mississippian  Lime- 
stones, and  a  few  outliers  of  the  Coal  Measures. 

PHYSIOGRAPHY. — Northwest  sloping  river  plain,  in  the 
northwestern  part.  Polling  hills  due  to  dissection  in 
southern  part  of  the  county. 

DRAINAGE. — Sinking  creek  and  other  tributaries  of  the 
Ohio  and  North  Fork  of  the  Eough  Eiver. 

STRUCTURAL  LOCATION. — This  county  is  well  down  on 
the  western  limb  of  the  Cincinnati  arch.  It  contains 
one  large  and  a  few  minor  anticlines,  which  are  found 
with  difficulty  due  to  the  heavy  mantel  of  soil. 

OIL  AND  GAS  DEVELOPMENT. — A  small  gas  field  was 
developed  surrounding  Cloverport  on  the  Ohio  Eiver 
in  1889.  Its  production  now  is  not  very  important. 
Some  rather  extended  further  prospecting  has  been 
done  without  important  results.  The  gas  production 
was  secured  from  the  Warsaw  of  the  Mississippian  Sys- 
tem. It  was  used  for  domestic  consumption  in  Clover- 
port,  Kentucky. 

BULLITT — No.  15. 
LOCATION. — North-Central  part  of  Kentucky. 

SURFACE  GEOLOGY. — The  exposed  rocks  of  Bullitt 
county  in  ascending  order  are  Ordovician  Limestones, 
Silurian  Limestones,  Devonian  Limestones  and  Shales, 
and  Mississippian  Limestones. 

PHYSIOGRAPHY. — This  county  is  bisected  on  a  north 
and  south  line  by  a  Knobs  region.  The  western  section 
is  an  elevated  plain  dipping  northwestward  to  the  Ohio 
Eiver. 

DRAINAGE. — North  Fork  and  the  Main  Salt  Eiver. 

STRUCTURAL  LOCATION. — Western  limb  of  the  Lexing- 
ton dome  of  the  Cincinnati  arch.  This  county  contains 
«  number  of  small  anticlines  which  under  a  good  cover 
of  the  Black  Shale  may  be  considered  a  good  location 


DISTRIBUTION  OF  OIL  AND  GAS  125 

for  Oil  and  Gas  prospecting.  There  has  been  no  import- 
ant development  in  this  county  until  the  present  time. 
Whether  porous  or  sandy  conditions  in  the  limestones 
will  be  found  is  as  yet  unknown. 

BUTLER — No.  16. 

LOCATION. — Central- Western  Kentucky. 

SURFACE  GEOLOGY. — Mississippian  Limestone,  and  Coal 
Measures  of  the  Pennsylvanian. 

PYSIOGRAPHY. — Generally  a  low  flat  very  maturely 
dissected  plain.  Streams  are  broadly  meandering  with 
wide  alluvium  filled  bottoms.  The  relief  is  from  two 
hundred  to  three  hundred  feet. 

DRAINAGE. — Green  River  and  tributaries. 

STRUCTURAL  LOCATION. — Down  toward  central  portion 
of  the  Western  Coal  Basin. 

OIL  AND  GAS  DEVELOPMENT. — This  county  has  been 
prospected  at  several  points  for  Oil  and  Gas,  but  without 
any  important  results.  It  is,  however,  considered  worth 
further  and  more  scientific  investigations. 

CALDWELL — No.  16. 
LOCATION — Western  Kentucky. 

SURFACE  GEOLOGY. — This  county,  due  to  its  location 
in  the  widely  faulted  portion  of  the  Western  Kentucky, 
may  be  considered  unimportant  from  a  standpoint  of 
Oil  and  Gas  prospecting.  The  surficial  rocks  are  the  limes 
and  sandy  limes  of  the  Mississippian,  and  the  sandstones, 
shales,  and  coals  of  the  Pennsylvanian. 

GALLOWAY — No.  18. 

LOCATION. — Western  Kentucky,  adjoining  the  Tennes- 
see Line  in  the  southeastern  portion  of  the  Jackson 
Purchase. 

SURFACE  GEOLOGY. — Quaternary  sands  and  gravels  in 
the  western  portion,  with  exposed  Cretaceaus  and  Mis- 
sissippian sendiments  in  the  river  and  creek  valleys  of  the 
eastern  section.  Very  little  is  known  about  this  county, 


126       OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

due  to  the  fact  that  no  drilling  has  been  done  in  this 
county.  There  is  no  reason  to  disbelieve,  however,  that 
the  producing  horizons  of  Kentucky  underlie  the  surface 
rocks.  The  thickness  of  all  sediment  in  this  section  is 
very  great.  Deep  drilling  should  be  one  of  the  primary 
considerations  in  prospecting  in  this  section. 

CAMPBELL — No.  19. 
LOCATION — North-Central  Kentucky. 

SUKFACE  GEOLOGY. — This  is  a  Blue  Grass  county, 
adjoining  the  Ohio  River  and  may  be  considered  unim- 
portant from  a  standpoint  of  Oil  and  Gas  prospecting. 
The  surficial  rocks  are  Ordovician  Limestones. 

CARLISLE — No.  20. 

LOCATION. — In  the  extreme  western  part  of  the  State, 
adjoining  the  Mississippi  Eiver. 

OIL  AND  GAS  DEVELOPMENT. — No  prospecting  of  record 
has  been  done  in  this  county.  Its  Oil  and  Gas  importance 
is  for  this  reason  unknown.  Surface  rocks  are  composed 
of  Quaternary  sands,  clays,  and  gravels. 

CARROLL — No.  21. 

LOCATION. — North-Central  Kentucky,  adjoining  the 
Ohio  River. 

OIL  AND  GAS  DEVELOPMENT. — This  county  is  in  the 
northern  part  of  the  Blue  Grass  section  of  the  State.  It 
is  considered  unimportant  from  an  Oil  and  Gas  stand- 
point due  to  the  fact  that  the  surface  rocks  are  the 
unproductive  Ordovician  Limestones  of  Central  Ken- 
tucky. 

CARTER — No.  22. 
LOCATION. — Northeastern  Kentucky. 

SURFACE  GEOLOGY. — Principally  Coal  Measures  of  the 
Pennsylvanian,  with  the  underlying  Misissippian  Lime- 
stones and  Shales,  exposed  along  the  river  bottoms. 

PHYSIOGRAPHY. — Maturely  dissected  northwest  slop- 
ing table-land. 


DISTRIBUTION  OF  OIL  AND  GAS  127 

DRAINAGE. — Tigert's  Creek  and  Little  Sandy  Elvers. 

STRUCTURAL  LOCATION. — On  the  east  limb  of  the  Lex- 
ington dome  of  the  Cincinnati  arch. 

OIL  AND  GAS  PRODUCTION. — Considerable  prospecting 
for  oil  and  gas  has  been  done  in  this  county  and  some 
little  production  has  been  secured.  No  pools  of  out- 
standing value  have  been  proven. 

CASEY— No.  23. 
LOCATION. — Central  Kentucky. 

SURFACE  GEOLOGY. — Principally  Mississippian  Lime- 
stones and  Shales,  with  Devonian  Shales  exposed  in 
river  bottoms. 

PHYSIOGRAPHY. — Deeply  dissected  table-lands. 

DRAINAGE. — Green  River  and  small  tributaries  of  the 
Cumberland  River  on  the  east  and  Rolling  Fork  of  the 
Salt  River  on  the  north. 

STRUCTURAL  LOCATION. — South  flank  of  the  Lexington 
dome  of  the  Cincinnati  arch.  Position  between  the  Lex- 
ington dome  and  Nashville  dome. 

OIL  AND  GAS  DEVELOPMENT. — Some  prospecting  has 
been  done  in  this  county,  but  no  pools  of  outstanding 
importance  have  been  established. 

CHRISTIAN — No.  24. 

LOCATION — West-Southern  Kentucky,  adjoining  the 
Tennessee  line. 

SURFACE  GEOLOGY. — Mississippian  Limestones  in  the 
south  and  central  sections  and  Coal  Measures  of  the 
Pennsylvanian  System  in  the  extreme  northern  portion. 

PHYSIOGRAPHY. — Undulating  low  table-lands. 

DRAINAGE. — North  and  south  forks  of  Sinking  Creek 
of  the  Little  River  and  tributaries  of  the  Cumberland 
River,  northern  tributaries  of  the  Trade  Water  River. 

STRUCTURAL  LOCATION. — Christian  county  is  on  the 
south  limb  of  the  Western  Kentucky  Coal  Basin  or 

syncline. 


128       OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

On,  AND  GAS  DEVELOPMENT. — This  county  has  been 
prospected  to  some  extent,  and  production  has  been 
secured  in  very  small  quantity.  No  definite  pools  of 
importance  have  been  brought  in.  Active  development  is 
now  in  progress. 


CLARK— No.  25. 
LOCATION. — Central  Kentucky. 

SURFACE  GEOLOGY. — This  is  a  Blue  Grass  county,  for 
the  most  part,  though  the  southeastern  extremity 
extends  into  the  Knobs  Region.  It  has  been  prospected 
through  the  southeastern  sections.  Very  little  produc- 
tion has  been  obtained.  No  pools  of  outstanding  import- 
ance have  been  proven  in  Clark  county.  Surficial  rocks 
are  the  Ordovician,  Silurian,  and  Devonian  limestones 
and  shales. 

CLAY— No.  26. 
LOCATION. — Southeastern  Kentucky. 

SURFACE  GEOLOGY. — In  Coal  Measures  of  the  Pennsyl- 
vanian  system. 

PHYSMIOGRAPHY. — Maturely  dissected  north  west  slop- 
ing table-land. 

DRAINAGE. — Goose  Creek,  Red  River  and  other  minor 
tributaries  of  the  Kentucky  River. 

STRUCTURAL  LOCATION. — This  county  is  bisected  by  the 
eastern  Kentucky  Geosyncline.  Several  small  struc- 
tures have  been  successfully  prospected  for  both  oil  and 
gas. 

OIL  AND  GAS  DEVELOPMENT. — A  number  of  vigorous 
drilling  campaigns  are  now  going  forward  in  this  county, 
but  no  large  pools  of  importance  have  yet  been  proven. 
There  is  reason  to  believe,  however,  that  both  oil  and 
gas  will  be  found  in  this  county  in  important  commercial 
quantity. 


DISTRIBUTION  OF  OIL  AND  GAS  129 

CLINTON — No.  27. 

LOCATION. — Southern  Kentucky,  adjoining  the  Tennes- 
see line. 

SURFACE  GEOLOGY. — Ordovician  Limestone  on  Indian 
Creek  in  the  northern  section.  In  ascending  order  pro- 
ceeding to  the  south,  Devonian  Shales,  Mississippian! 
Limestones  and  Shales,  and  outliers  of  the  Pottsville 
Conglomerate  of  the  Pennsylvanian. 

DRAINAGE. — Tributaries  of  the  Cumberland  River. 

STRUCTURAL  LOCATION. — This  county  is  located  low 
down  on  the  northeastern  dip  of  the  Nashville  dome  of 
the  Cincinnati  arch. 

OIL  AND  GAS  DEVELOPMENT. — Though  Clinton  county 
adjoins  the  oil  and  gas  pools  of  Wayne  county,  on  the 
eastern  part,  no  recent  production  of  importance  has 
been  proven  within  its  boundaries. 

CRITTENDEN — No.  28. 

LOCATION- — Located  in  the  greatly  faulted  lead,  zinc, 
and  fluorspar  section  of  Western  Kentucky. 

SURFACE  GEOLOGY. — This  county  is  considered  of  no 
importance,  from  the  standpoint  of  oil  and  gas  develop 
ment.  The  surface  rocks  are  principally  the  limestones  of 
the  Mississippian.  Pennsylvanian  sandstones,  shales,  and 
coals  overlap  the  northeastern  border.  River  alluvium 
cf  recent  deposit  blankets  the  northwestern  border. 
There  are  a  few  isolated  outlines  of  the  Coal  Measures 
scattered  across  the  country. 

CUMBERLAND — No.  29. 

LOCATION. — Southern-Central  Kentucky,  adjoining  the 
Tennessee  Line. 

SURFACE  GEOLOGY. — In  the  bottoms  of  the  Cumber- 
land River,  upper  Ordovician  Limestone  are  exposed. 
The  Devonian  shale  and  Mississippian  limestone  are 
found  in  ascending  order  over  the  rest  of  the  county. 

PHYSIOGRAPHY. — The  central  portion  of  this  county  is 
a  river  plain  which  merges  back  to  the  steep  sloping 

Oil  &  Gas— 5 


130  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

hills,  and  rolling  country  in  the  extreme  north  and  south- 
eastern portions  of  the  county. 

DRAINAGE. — Cumberland  Eiver  and  its  tributaries. 

STRUCTURAL  LOCATION. — This  county  is  located  on  the 
northeastern  flank  of  the  Nashville  Dome  of  the  Cincin- 
nati Arch. 

OIL  AND  GAS  DEVELOPMENT. — There  are  within  this 
county,  a  number  of  small  anticlines  of  which  the  major 
axes  cross  the  Cumberland  River.  These  small  structures 
may  be  seen  on  the  cliffs  on  either  side.  This  county  is 
one  of  the  oldest  producing  oil  and  gas  in  the  State.  Oil 
was  struck  in  1828,  in  what  is  now  called  the  great  Amer- 
ican well.  This  well  is  located  near  Burkesville,  and 
was  drilled  by  salt  water  prospectors.  Since  that  time 
scattered  production  of  considerable  value  has  been 
developed  in  the  various  parts  of  this  county  especially 
adjoining  the  Cumberland  Eiver.  There  is  at  present 
a  growing  interest  looking  toward  the  rejuvenation  of 
these  pools.  Many  of  the  old  wells  have  been  cleaned 
out,  redrilled,  and  in  some  portions  deeper  drilling  insti- 
gated. The  oil  of  this  county  is  very  close  to  the  lowest 
horizon  in  the  State  and  stratigraphically  it  is  the  lowest 
extensively  producing  oil  horizon  in  the  world. 

DAVIESS— No.  30. 

LOCATION. — Northwestern  part  of  the  State,  adjoining1 
the  Ohio  Eiver. 

SUREACE  GEOLOGY. — This  county  is  located  in  the 
northern  portion  of  the  "Western  Coal  Field.  It  is  syn- 
clinal for  the  most  part  and  is  not  considered  of  import- 
ance for  oil  and  gas  prospecting.  Daviess"  has  had  very 
little  development,  and  has  no  commercial  production. 

EDMONSON — No.  31. 
LOCATION. — Central- Western  Kentucky. 

SURFACE  GEOLOGY. — Coal  Measures  of  the  Western 
Coal  Fields  in  the  northwest,  Mississippian  Limestones' 
in  the  southeastern  part  of  the  county. 


DISTRIBUTION  OF  OIL  AND  GAS  131 

PHYSIOGEAPHY. — Low  rolling  erosional  hills  in  the 
Pottsville  in  the  northwest;  gentle  undulating  in  the 
southeast. 

DRAINAGE. — Green  and  Nolin  Eivers  and  their  tribu- 
taries. 

STRUCTURAL  LOCATION. — On  the  western  limb  of  the 
Cincinnati  Anticline,  and  on  the  eastern  dip  of  the 
Western  Coal  Basin. 

OIL  AND  GAS  DEVELOPMENT. — A  number  of  wells  have 
been  drilled.  Prospecting  for  oil  and  gas  is  now  going 
forward  with  renewed  energy.  Small  index  production 
of  importance  has  been  secured.  Asphalt  deposits  are 
found  in  this  county.  It  seems  probable  that  future 
prospecting  will  show  that  oil  and  gas  pools  of  import- 
ance are  located  in  Edmonson  county. 

ELLIOTT — No.  32. 
LOCATION.-  -Northeastern  Kentucky. 

SURFACE  GEOLOGY. — Elliott  county  is  in  the  Eastern 
Coal  Field.  Its  surface  rocks  are  in  the  Pottsville 
group,  with  the  exception  of  Misissippian  Limestones, 
in  the  bottom  of  Big  Sinking  Creek  in  the  northwest, 
and  the  intruded  peridotite  dikes  in  the  central  portion. 

PHYSIOGRAPHY. — Maturely  dissected,  northwest  sloping 
table-land. 

DRAINAGE. — Little  Sandy  Eiver  and  its  tributaries. 

STRUCTURAL  LOCATION. — Intermediate  position  on  the 
eastern  limb  of  the  Cincinnati  Anticline.  There  are  pro- 
nounced minor  structures  and  faults  in  this  county. 

OIL  AND  GAS  DEVELOPMENT. — A  number  of  wells  have 
been  drilled  in  this  county,  in  testing  for  oil  and  gas. 
Several  of  the  wells  have  produced  gas  in  a  large  quan- 
tity, and  a  few  producing  oil  in  small  quantity  have  been 
found  in  this  county. 


132  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

ESTILL— No.  33. 
LOCATION. — Central-Eastern  Kentucky. 

SURFACE  GEOLOGY. — The  surficial  rocks  of  this  county 
are  composed  in  ascending  order  of  Ordovician  and  Sil- 
urian Limestones  and  Shales ;  Devonian  Limestones  and 
Shales;  Mississipian  Limestones  and  Shales,  and  out- 
liers of  the  Pottsville  Conglomerate,  which/  form  the 
ridges. 


PIPE  LINE  STATION,  ESTILL   COUNTY,  KENTUCKY. 

This  station  which  is  located  near  Millers  Creek  was  constructed 
during  the  past  year  by  the  Cumberland  Pipe  Line  Company  to  facili- 
tate the  handling  of  the  crude  oil  production  of  this  part  of  the  field. 
Photo  by  W.  R.  Jillson,  1918. 

PHYSIOGRAPHY. — Knobs,  and  a  very  maturely  dissected 
table-land. 

DRAINAGE. — Kentucky  River  and  its  tributaries. 

STRUCTURAL  LOCATION". — High  up  in  the  eastern  flank 
of  the  Lexington  Dome  of  the  Cincinnati  arch. 

OIL  AND  GAS  DEVELOPMENT. — E still  county  is  one  of  the 
most  important  in  Kentucky  from  an  oil  and  gas  stand- 
point. It  first  gave  small  production  lying  along  and 
above  the  outcrop  line  of  the  Devonian  Black  Shale. 
These  first  light  green  oil  pools  in  this  section  of  Ken- 


DISTRIBUTION  OF  OIL  AND  GAS  133 

tucky  became  known  as  Irvine,  Eavenna  and  the  Irvine. 
Extension  Pools.  These  pools  opened  the  way  for  the 
drilling  of  the  Ashley,  Station  Camp,  Ross  Creek,  Big 
Sinking  and  associated  pools  to  the  East  and  South. 
There  have  probably  been  more  wells  drilled  in  Estill 
county  than  any  other  county  in  the  State  of  Kentucky. 
There  are  at  present  a  very  large  number  of  drillings  and 
redrillings  going  on  in  this  county.  The  Irvine  pool, 
Station  Camp,  Ross  Creek,  and  Millers  Creek,  which  are 
the  best  known  in  this  section  of  this  State,  are  listed 
wherever  Kentucky  is  recognized  as  an  oil  state.  The 
Cumberland  Pipe  Line  Company  serves  Estill  county. 

FAYETTE — No.  34. 

LOCATION. — This  is  a  central  Blue  Grass  county,  and 
as  such  is  unimportant  from  an  oil  and  gas  standpoint. 
The  surficial  rocks  are  upper  and  lower  Ordovician  Lime- 
stones which  have  been  proven  unproductive. 

FLEMING — No.  35. 
LOCATION. — Northeastern  Kentucky. 

SURFACE  GEOLOGY. — The  surface  rocks  of  this  county 
are  principally  Ordovician  and  Silurian  Limestones. 
Mississipian  sediments  in  the  East  overlay  a  narrow 
strip  of  Devonian  Limestones  and  Shales. 

OIL  AND  GAS  DEVELOPMENT. — Very  little  development 
work  has  been  carried  on  in  this  county.  No  production 
has  been  secured  of  importance. 

FLOYD— No.  36. 
LOCATION. — Eastern  Kentucky. 

SURFACE  GEOLOGY. — This  county  shows  only  coal,  sand- 
stones and  shales  of  the  Pottsville  series. 

PHYSIOGRAPHY. — Maturely  dissected  north  westward 
sloping  table-lands,  with  relief  of  about  six  hundred  feet. 

DRAINAGE. — Big  Sandy  River  and  its  tributaries, 
Johns,  Beaver  and  Middle  Creeks. 


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OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 


OIL  AND  GAS  POOLS   OF  EASTERN  KENTUCKY. 
Sketch  map  showing  the  developed  oil  and  gas  fields  of  the  Eastern 
raost  part  of  the  State.    The  counties  showing  no  production  are  yet 
largely  untested. 


THE    BEAVER    CREEK    OIL    FIELD. 

The  view  is  at  the  mouth  of  Salt  Lick  Creek  on  Right  Beaver 
Creek,  Floyd  County,  Ky.     Photo  by  A.  M.  Miller,  1902. 


DISTRIBUTION  OF  OIL  AND  GAS  135 

STRUCTURAL  LOCATION. — Floyd  county  is  located  in  the 
Eastern  Geosyncline,  which  passes  through  it  from  the 
southern  tip  of  Magoffin  county,  and  on  east  through 
the  northern  part  of  Pike  county.  There  are  four  pro- 
nounced minor  structures  in  Floyd  county.  These  are: 
the  Beaver  Creek  Anticline,  the  Bull  Creek  Anticline, 
the  Prestonsburg  Anticline,  and  the  Mud  Creek  Anti- 
cline. Synclinal  oil  is  produced  in  the  old  Beaver  Creek 
Oil  Pool  at  Bosco  on  Right  Beaver  Creek.  The  initial 
production  was  drilled  in  on  the  Howard  farm  at  Bosco 
in  the  year  1891.  Oil  has  also  been  developed  on  Mid- 
dle Creek,  near  Prestonsburg.  Gas  has  been  developed 
in  large  quantities  on  the  Beaver  Creek,  and  Bull  Creek 
anticlines.  It  is  proposed  to  commercialize  this  gas  by 
the  extension  of  a  new  eight-inch  pipe  line  to  the  Louis- 
ville Gas  and  Pump  Line  in  Johnson  county. 


FRANKLIN — No.  37. 

LOCATION. — This  is  a  central  Blue  Grass  county,  and 
therefore  is  unimportant  from  the  standpoint  of  oil  and 
gas.  A  small  amount  of  gas  was  secured  in  this  county, 
in  the  Ordovician  rocks  near  Frankfort,  but  the  produc- 
tion was  not  found  to  be  in  commercial  quantity.  The 
surface  rocks  are  the  upper  and  lower  Ordovician  lime- 
stones which  in  this  part  of  the  State  have  been  (proven 
unproductive. 


FULTON— No.  38. 

LOCATION. — Extreme  southwest  section  of  the  State  of 
Kentucky  in  the  Jackson  Purchase,  adjoining  the  Mis- 
sissippi River. 

OIL  AND  GAS  DEVELOPMENT. — A  heavy  mantel  of  Ceno- 
fcoic  Embayment  deposits  covers  the  entire  surface  of 
this  county.  Underlying  it  occur  Cretaceous  anl  Mis- 
si  ssippian  Limetones.  No  developments  have  been  car- 
ried on  in  this  county  and  therefore  little  is  known  con- 
cerning its  oil  and  gas  possibilities. 


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OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES   OF  KENTUCKY 


DISTRIBUTION  OF  OIL  AND  GAS  137 

GALLATIN— No.  39. 

LOCATION. — Northern-Central  portion  of  the  State. 
This  is  a  Blue  Grass  county  and  is  therefore  considered 
of  little  importance  for  oil  and  gas  prospecting.  The  sur- 
face rocks  are  the  unproductive  Ordovician  limestones. 

GAKRABD — No.  40. 

LOCATION. — This  is  a  Central  Blue  Grass  county  and  is 
unimportant  from  the  standpoint  of  oil  and  gas.  The  sur- 
face rocks  are  the  unproductive  Ordovician  limestones. 

GRANT- — No.  41. 

LOCATION. — Central  Blue  Grass  county,  and  therefore 
is  unimportant  from  an  oil  and  gas  standpoint.  The  sur- 
face rocks  are  the  unproductive  Ordovician  limestones. 

GRAVES— No.  42. 

LOCATION. — Graves  county  lies  in  the  Jackson  Pur- 
chase, in  the  western  part  of  Kentucky. 

SURFACE  GEOLOGY. — The  surficial  rocks,  are  Quater- 
nary sands  and  gravels  and  clays. 

OIL  AND  GAS  DEVELOPMENT. — One  well  is  drilling  in 
Graves  county.  The  possibilities  of  oil  and  gas  accumu- 
lation are  very  uncertain. 

GRAYSON — No.  43. 
LOCATION. — Central- Western  Kentucky. 

SURFACE  GEOLOGY. — The  areal  geology  of  this  county 
consists  of  Mississippian  Limestone,  in  the  north  and, 
eastern  sections  of  the  county,  with  the  Pottsville  Con- 
glomerate in  the  south  and  western  sections. 

PHYSIOGRAPHY. — The  surface  is  rugged,  with  rather 
high  hills  caused  by  dissection  of  the  Pottsville. 

DRAINAGE. — The  Nolin  and  Eough  Rivers  and  their 
tributaries,  drain  Grayson  county. 


138 


OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 


"MAJOR  SAND"   OIL  OF   GRAYSON  COUNTY. 

Three  storage  tanks,  filled  with  green  oil  from  wells  on  the  Major 
and  Moffitt  farms,  Grayson  County,  Ky.  The  storage  and  the  producing 
wells  are  the  property  of  Carl  K.  Dresser.  The  Major  and  Moffitt 
farms  are  seven  miles  west  of  Leitchfield,  Kentucky.  Photo  by  W.  R. 
Jillson. 

STRUCTURAL  LOCATION. — This  county  is  located  dowit 
on  the  west  limb  of  the  Cincinnati  arch  on  the  eastern 
edge  of  the  Western  Coal  Basin.  The  county  is  bisected 
on  an  east  and  west  line  by  the  Bough  Creek  Fault  and 
Anticline. 

OIL  AND  GAS  DEVELOPMENT. — Fifteen  or  twenty  wells 
have  been  drilled  in  Grayson  county.  Some  of  these 
secured  oil,  some  gas  and  some  artesian  water.  Three 
or  four  were  dry.  The  oil  and  gas  production  is  fairly 
large  and  of  commercial  value.  Considerable  drilling 
is  now  in  progress.  The  Leitchfield  Gas  Field,  located 
surrounding  the  town  of  the  same  name,  is  now  produc- 
ing about  three  million  cubic  feet  of  gas  a  day.  About 
the  same  amount  of  gas  has  been  developed  at  Meridith. 

GREEN — No.  44. 
LOCATION. — South-Central  Kentucky. 

SURFACE  GEOLOGY. — The  surficial  rocks  are  Mississip- 
pian  Limestone  and  Shales. 


DISTRIBUTION  OF  OIL  AND  GAS  139 

PHYSIOGRAPHY. — Rolling  to  rugged. 
DRAINAGE. — Green  Eiver  and  its  tributaries. 

STRUCTURAL  LOCATION. — Western  flank  of  the  saddle 
of  the  Cincinnati  Arch. 

OIL  AND  GAS  DEVELOPMENT. — An  active  campaign  of  oil 
and  gas  drilling  is  now  in  progress  and  quite  a  number 
of  wells  have  been  drilled  in  Green  county.  Some  of 
these  are  producing  a  little  oil  and  considerable  gas. 
There  is  one  proven  gas  pool  of  commercial  value  in  this 
county  just  northeast  of  Greensburg.  Individual  wells 
are  estimated  at  about  1,000,000  cubic  feet  per  day  at  the 
maximum  flow. 

GREENUP — No.  45. 

LOCATION. — Northeastern  Kentucky,  adjoining  the  Ohio 
Eiver. 

SURFACE  GEOLOGY. — The  surface  rocks  of  Greenup 
county  are  Mississippian  Limestones,  and  Pottsville 
coals,  sandstones  and  shales. 

DRAINAGE. — Little  Sandy  River,  Tigerts  Creek,  and  its 
tributaries. 

STRUCTURAL  LOCATION. — Greenup  county  occupies  ail 
intermediate  position  on  the  east  flank  of  the  Cincinnati 
arch. 

OIL  AND  GAS  DEVELOPMENT. — A  considerable  number 
of  wells  have  been  drilled.  Some  oil  and  gas  has  been 
secured,  but  to  date,  no  wells  of  importance  have  been 
drilled. 

HANCOCK — No.  46. 

LOCATION. — Northwestern  Kentucky. 

SURFACE  GEOLOGY. — The  surficial  rocks  of  this  county 
are  those  of  the  Pottsville.  The  single  exception  to 
this  inclusive  statement  is  found  in  the  Mississippian 
Limestones  which  are  exposed  along  a  narrow  strip  on 
the  eastern  border. 

OIL  AND  GAS  DEVELOPMENT. — Although  this  county  is 
close  to  the  old  Cloverport  Gas  Field,  no  important  oil 
and  gas  developments  have  been  made. 


140       OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

HARDIN — No.  47. 
LOCATION. — Western-Central  Kentucky. 

SURFACE  GEOLOGY. — This  county  shows  Mississippian 
Limestones  on  the  surface  except  in  a  very  small  section 
along  the  Salt  River  on  the  northeast  boundary.  Here 
Devonian  and  Silurian  sediments  outcrop. 

OIL  AND  GAS  DEVELOPMENT. — A  number  of  oil  wells 
have  been  drilled  in  this  county  but  no  production  has 
been  secured. 

HARLAN — No.  48. 

LOCATION. — Southeastern  Kentucky. 

OIL  AND  GAS  DEVELOPMENT. — This  county  lies  between 
Pine  and  Cumberland  mountains  and  therefore  is  unim- 
portant from  the  standpoint  of  oil  and  gas  prospecting. 

HARRISON — No.  49. 

LOCATION. — This  is  a  Blue  Grass  county,  and  is  there- 
for unimportant  from  the  standpoint  of  oil  and  gas 
investigation.  Ordovician  Limestones  are  at  the  surface. 

HART— No.  50. 
LOCATION. — Western-Central  Kentucky. 

SURFACE  GEOLOGY. — Surface  rocks  of  this  county  are 
the  Mississipipian  Limestones,  with  a  small  extension  of 
the  Pottsville  Conglomerate,  in  the  western  portion  of 
the  county. 

PHYSIOGRAPHY. — Surface  of  this  county  is  rolling  to 
rugged. 

DRAINAGE. — Green  and  Nolin  Rivers. 

STRUCTURAL  LOCATION. — On  the  west  limb  of  the  Cin- 
cinnati arch  opposite  the  saddle.  Several  small  struc- 
tures exist  in  Hart  county.  One  of  them  located  north 
of  Munfordville  has  been  tested  with  a  dry  hole. 

OIL  AND  GAS  DEVELOPMENT. — This  county  contains  a 
number  of  small  folds,  which  have  not  been  tested.  To 
date  no  oil  or  gas  discoveries  of  importance  have  been 
made. 


DISTRIBUTION  OF  OIL  AND  GAS  141 

HENDERSON — No.  51. 

LOCATION. — Northwestern  Kentucky,  adjoining  the 
Ohio  River. 

On,  AND  GAS  DEVELOPMENT. — This  county  is  in  the 
lower  portion  of  the  western  coal  basin  and  to  date  has 
given  no  indications  of  oil  and  gas  in  commercial  quan- 
tities. 

HENRY— No.  52. 

LOCATION. — This  is  a  central  Blue  Grass  county,  and 
is  therefore  unimportant  from  an  oil  and  gas  standpoint. 
Ordovician  Limestones  are  the  surface  rocks. 

HICKMAN — No.  53. 

LOCATION. — This  county  is  located  adjoining  the  Mis- 
sissippi River,  in  the  southwest  portion  of  the  Jackson 
Purchase. 

OIL  AND  GAS  DEVELOPMENT. — No  development  of 
record  has  been  carried  forward  in  this  county  and  its 
oil  and  gas  possibilities  are  unknown. 

HOPKINS — No.  54. 

LOCATION. — Southwest  portion  of  Western  Kentucky 
coal  fields. 

OIL  AND  GAS  DEVELOPMENT. — This  county  is  located 
adjoining  the  highly  faulted  section  of  Western  Ken- 
tucky. Although  the  oil  and  gas  strata  of  Eastern  Ken- 
tucky, are  present  here,  it  is  not  thought  either  of  these 
hydrocarbons  will  be  recovered  in  important  commercial 
quantities. 

JACKSON — No.  55. 

LOCATION. — On  the  western  edge  of  the  Eastern  Coal 
field,  centrally  located. 

SURFACE  GEOLOGY. — Principally  the  Pottsville  Con- 
glomerate of  the  Pennsylvanian.  The  upper  Mississip- 
pian  Limestone  and  Shales  are  exposed  on  the  head  of 
Indian  Creek,  Clover  Bottom,  Horse  Creeks  and  also  on 
the  South  Fork  of  Station  Camp  Creek. 


142       OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

PHYSIOGRAPHY. — Bugged  to  Rough.  Dissected  west 
edge  of  the  Coal  Measures. 

DRAINAGE. — Middle  and  South  Forks  of  the  Rock- 
castle  Rivers,  and  South  Fork  of  Station  Camp  Creek 
of  the  Kentucky  River. 

STRUCTURAL  LOCATION. — Middle  position,  east  flank  of 
the  Cincinnati  arch.  There  are  a  very  few  minor  struc- 
tures in  this  county.  The  county  is  principally  a  gentle 
monocline. 

OIL  AND  GAS  DEVELOPMENT. — A  number  of  wells  have 
been  sunk,  at  different  points  in  this  county,  but  produc- 
tion of  commercial  importance  has  not  been  secured 
except  on  the  lower  waters  of  Station  Camp  and  Ross 
Creeks.  These  pools  are  really  across  the  county  line 
in  E  still. 

JEFFERSON — No.  56. 

LOCATION. — Western  part  of  Kentucky,  adjoining  the 
Blue  Grass  section,  and  Ohio  River. 

SURFACE  GEOLOGY. — Ordovician  Limestones,  Silurian 
Limestones,  Devonian  Limestones  and  Shales,  and  Mis- 
si  ssippian  Limestones,  comprise  the  surface  rocks  of  this 
county. 

PHYSIOGRAPHY. — Undulating  in  the  east  due  to  dissec- 
tion. Knobs  in  the  western  portion  of  the  county. 

DRAINAGE. — Floyds  Creek  and  small  tributaries  of  the 
Ohio  River. 

STRUCTURAL  LOCATION. — High  up  on  the  western  flank 
of  the  Lexington  Dome  of  the  Cincinnati  arch. 

OIL  AND  GAS  DEVELOPMENT. — Some  little  prospecting 
has  been  going  forward  in  the  southwestern  portion  of 
this  county  where  a  number  of  minor  folds  are  known  to 
exist.  No  production  has  been  proven  to  date. 


DISTRIBUTION  OF  OIL  AND  GAS 


143 


A  BLUE  GRASS  DRILLING. 

This  well  on  the  Wm.  Hoover  farm  just  south  of  Nicholasville  in 
Jessamine  County,  had  shown  no  oil  or  gas  at  2,500  feet  and  drilling 
was  continued.  The  rocks  penetrated  by  the  bit  were  Ordovician 
Limestones  chiefly.  The  lower  record  has  not  been  studied.  Photo  by 
W.  R.  Jillson,  1919. 


144       OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

JESSAMINE — No.  57. 

LOCATION. — This  county  is  located  on  the  pinnacle 
area  of  the  Lexington  dome.  Lower  Ordovician  Lime- 
stones are  exposed  at  the  surface,  and  at  Brooklyn 
Bridge  over  the  Kentucky  River  the  lowest  strati- 
graphic  sediments  in  the  State  of  Kentucky  are  exposed. 
A  well  now  twenty-five  hundred  feet  deep  and  still  dril- 
ling is  located  a  quarter  mile  south  of  Nicholasville.  This 
well  has  not  shown  oil  or  gas  to  date  but  has  unlimited 
quantities  of  fresh  water.  Jessamine  county  is  consid- 
ered a  typical  example  of  the  non-productive  Blue  Grass 
area  of  this  State. 

JOHNSON — No.  58. 

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LOCATION. — Eastern  Kentucky. 

SUKFACE  GEOLOGY. — Coal  Measures. 
PHYSIOGRAPHY. — Maturely  and  dissected  plateau. 

DRAINAGE. — Paint  Creek  and  other  small  tributaries 
of  the  Levisa  Fork  of  the  Big  Sandy  River. 

STRUCTURAL  LOCATION. — Johnson  county  is  crossed  by 
the  Irvine-Paint  Creek  Fault  and  Fold  on  an  east-west 
line  through  its  central  portion.  The  western  extremity 
of  this  county  is  located  on  the  well  known  Paint  Creek 
Uplift,  which  has  a  north  and  south  trend.  The  Paint 
Creek  Dome,  Laurel  Creek  Dome,  and  Paint  Creek  Anti- 
cline are  the  chief  sub-structures  of  importance  in  the 
county. 

OIL  AND  GAS  DEVELOPMENT. — A  large  amount  of 
development  has  gone  forward  in  this  county,  but  oil 
production  has  not  been  proven  in  large  commercial 
quantity.  However,  many  widely  scattered  small  oil  wells 
are  to  be  found  in  Johnson  county.  Both  the  Paint  Creek 
and  Laurel  Creek  Domes  have  developed  gas  in  large 
quantity.  This  gas  totaling  altogether  at  the  present 
about  fifteen  million  cubic  feet  daily  is  going  into  the 
Central  Kentucky  Natural  Gas  Pipe  Line,  and  the  Louis- 
ville Gas  and  Electric  Pipe  Line.  It  is  very  probable  that 
this  county  will,  with  further  prospecting,  become  an  im- 
portant oil  producer. 


DISTRIBUTION  OF  OIL  AND  GAS  145 

KENTON — No.  59. 

LOCATION. — This  county  is  located  in  the  northern- 
most section  of  the  Blue  Grass  and  is  considered  unfav- 
orable for  oil  and  gas  development.  The  surface  rocks 
are  the  unproductive  Ordovician  Limestones. 


KNOTT — No.  60. 
LOCATION. — Southeastern  Kentucky. 

SURFACE  GEOLOGY. — Coal  Measures. 
PHYSIOGRAPHY. — Maturely  dissected  plateau. 

DRAINAGE. — Tributaries  of  the  Levisa  Fork  of  the  Big 
Sandy  River  and  North  Fork  of  the  Kentucky  River. 

STRUCTURAL  LOCATION. — This  county  is  located  just 
south  of  the  Eastern  Kentucky  Geosyncline  on  the  flank 
of  _ the  Pine  Mountain  uplift.  There  are  a  number  of 
small  structures  and  domes  in  this  county.  The  chief  of 
these  is  the  Yellow  Mountain  Anticline,  which  starts  in 
the  easternmost  tip  of  Breathitt  county  on  the  Spring1 
Fork  of  Quick  Sand  Creek  and  rises  to  the  southeast  in 
Knott  county  until  on  the  heads  of  Jones  Fork  of  Right 
Beaver  Creek  it  merges  into  the  normal  monoclinal  slope 
to  the  northwest. 

OIL  AND  GAS  DEVELOPMENT. — Both  oil  and  gas  are 
secured  in  this  county.  Gas  is  now  being  produced  from 
the  sand  inclusion  in  the  Big  Lime  on  the  Yellow  Moun- 
tain structure  on  Rock  Fork.  Oil  is  being  produced  on  the 
monoclinal  slope  on  Dry  and  Caney  Creeks  of  Right 
Beaver  Creek. 

KNOX— No.  61. 

LOCATION. — Southeastern  Kentucky. 
SURFACE  GEOLOGY. — Coal  Measures. 
PHYSIOGRAPHY. — Maturely  dissected  plateau. 
DRAINAGE. — Cumberland  River  and  its  tributaries. 


146 


OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 


STRUCTURAL,  LOCATION. — Knox  county  is  bisected  by 
the  Eastern  Kentucky  Geosyncline.  There  are  a  num- 
ber of  minor  faults  and  folds  in  this  county  which  are 
important  oil  and  gas  considerations.  The  folds  begin 
to  become  more  pronounced  and  are  faulted  as  the  Bell 
county  line  is  approached. 


OIL  AND  GAS  OF   SOUTH-EASTERN  KENTUCKY. 
This  ma;p  shows  the  location  of  the  gas  fields  of  Clay  and  Owsley 
counties  now  being  developed,  and  the  older  oil  field  north  of  Bar- 
bourville  in  Knox  county. 

OIL  AND  G-AS  DEVELOPMENT. — Knox  county  contains 
one  of  the  oldest  producing  fields  in  the  state  of  Ken- 
tucky. A  large  number  of  small  producing  wells  exist 
here,  located  on  Little  Richmond  and  Indian  Creeks. 
Three  sands  produce  in  the  Pottsville  Conglomerate. 
These  are  the  Wages,  Jones  and  Epperson.  Very  little 
drilling  has  been  done  below  the  Pottsville  and  the  pro- 
ductivity of  the  underlying  formations  is  practically 
unknown.  Deep  drilling  is  not  advocated  for  this  section. 


DISTRIBUTION  OF  OIL  AND  GAS  147 

LAURUE — No.  62. 
LOCATION. — Central  Kentucky. 

SURFACE  GEOLOGY. — Devonian  Limestones  and  Shales, 
and  Mississippian  Limestones  cover  the  entire  county 
with  the  exception  of  the  small  areas  of  the  Silurian 
which  are  found  in  the  bottom  of  Rolling  Fork. 

PHYSIOGRAPHY.— Knob  section  in  the  northeast,  high 
rolling  in  the  central  and  western  portions  of  the  county. 

DRAINAGE. — Rolling  Fork  of  the  Salt  River. 

STRUCTURAL  LOCATION. — Southwestern  flank  of  the 
Lexington  dome  of  the  Cincinnati  arch.  A  minor  anti- 
clinal structure  bisects  this  county  near  Hodgenville. 
It  is  a  probable  continuation  of  the  structure  at  Leitch- 
field  in  Grayson  county. 

OIL  AND  GAS  DEVELOPMENT. — Some  little  prospecting 
is  going  forward  in  this  county,  but  to  date  no  production 
of  commercial  importance  has  been  proven. 


LAUREL — No.  63. 
LOCATION. — Southeastern  Kentucky. 

SURFACE  GEOLOGY. — Coal  Measures. 

PHYSIOGRAPHY. — Maturely  dissected  northwest  slop- 
ing plateau. 

DRAINAGE. — Laurel  and  Rockcastle  Rivers  and  their 
tributaries. 

STRUCTURAL  LOCATION. — Low  down  on  the  eastern 
flank  of  the  Cincinnati  arch. 

OIL  AND  GAS  DEVELOPMENT. — Some  little  prospecting  is 
going  forward  in  Laurel  county  but  oil  and  gas  in  com- 
mercial quantities  have  not  been  obtained. 


DISTRIBUTION  OF  OIL  AND  GAS  149 

%  LAWRENCE — No.  64. 

LOCATION. — Northeastern  Kentucky. 
SURFACE  GEOLOGY. — Coal  Measures. 
PHYSIOGRAPHY. — Maturely  dissected  plateau. 

DRAINAGE. — Levisa  and  Tug  Forks  of  the  Big  Sandy 
Eiver.  Dry  Fork  of  the  Little  Sandy  Eiver. 

STRUCTURAL  LOCATION/ — Principally  synclinal  to  the 
east  of  the  Paint  Creek  uplift  and  to  the  north  of  the 
Paint  Creek- Warfield  Anticlines.  These  structures  are 
approached  in  Lawrence  county  by  strong  monoclinal 
folds  on  which  occur  many  minor  productive  structures. 

OIL  AND  GAS  DEVELOPMENT. — Four  oil  and  gas  pools 
of  established  reputation  are  found  in  Lawrence  county, 
these  are  the  Fallsburg,  Busseyville,  George's  Creek, 
and  Laurel  Creek  Pools,  the  latter  being  one  of  recent 
development,  which  overlaps  into  Johnson  county.  Pro- 
duction is  secured  from  the  Wier  and  Berea  sands  of  the 
Mississippian  system.  Oil  production  of  this  county  is 
served  by  the  Cumberland  Pipe  Line. 

LEE— No.  65. 
LOCATION. — Eastern  Kentucky. 

SURFACE  GEOLOGY. — Coal  Measures,  except  in  the  Ken- 
tucky River  bottoms,  and  the  northwestern  section  which 
shows  Mississippian  Limestones. 

PHYSIOGRAPHY. — Maturely  dissected  plateau,  rugged 
to  rough. 

DRAINAGE. — Kentucky  Eiver  and  its  tributaries. 

STRUCTURAL  LOCATION. — High  on  the  eastern  flank  of 
the  Lexington  Dome  of  the  Cincinnati  Arch.  This 
county  contains  many  small  anticlines  and  domes. 

OIL  AND  GAS  DEVELOPMENT. — Lee  county  contains  the 
Big  Sinking  Oil  Pool  which  is  the  largest  and  best  known 
oil  pool  in  the  state  of  Kentucky.  It  also  contains  a 
number  of  other  small  pools.  The  oil  production  is 


150 


OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES   OF  KENTUCKY 


THE  HELPING  HAND  OF  NATURE 

In  a  poor  farming  country  Mother  Nature  frequently  makes  ad- 
justment. Besides  carving  out  this  rock  barn  on  Big  Sinking  Creek 
in  Lee  County,  she  provided  immense  oil  wealth  under  the  surface. 

served  by  the  Cumberland  Pipe  Line,  and  Kentucky 
River  Towing  Company.  The  Indian  Pipe  Line  Com- 
pany, several  small  local  refineries,  and  the  Standard! 
Oil  Refining  Company  of  Louisville,  Kentucky,  are 
served  by  short  lines  or  by  tank  cars.  Production  is 
secured  from  the  Onondaga  (Corniferous)  Limestone 
and  in  some  wells  from  the  underlying  Niagara  Lime- 
stone. 

LESLIE — No.  66. 
LOCATION. — Southeastern  Kentucky. 

SUEFACE  GEOLOGY. — This  county  is  on  the  northeastern 
flank  of  the  Pine  Mountain  uplift  in  the  Eastern  Coal 
Field. 

OIL  AND  GAS  DEVELOPMENT. — Very  little  prospecting 
is  going  on  in  this  county,  and  no  production  of  import- 
ance has  been  secured. 


DISTRIBUTION  OF  OIL  AND  GAS  151 

LETCHER — No.  67. 

LOCATION. — This  county  is  bisected  by  the  Pine  Moun- 
tain fault,  and  is  therefore  unfavorable  for  oil  and  gas 
prospecting. 

LEWIS — No.  68. 

LOCATION. — Northeastern  Kentucky,  adjoining  the 
Ohio  River. 

SUEFACE  GEOLOGY. — Principally  Mississippian  Lime- 
stones, with  a  small  exposed  area  of  the  underlying 
Devonian  and  Silurian  sediments. 

PHYSIOGRAPHY. — Maturely  dissected  plateau. 

DRAINAGE. — Kinniconick  and  Salt  Creeks  of  the  Ohio 
Eiver. 

STRUCTURAL  LOCATION. — Middle  position  of  the  east- 
ern flank  of  the  Cincinnati  Anticline. 

OIL  AND  GAS  DEVELOPMENT. — A  considerable  number  of 
wells  have  been  drilled  in  Lewis  county,  which  produce 
from  five  to  ten  barrels  of  crude  oil.  No  production  of 
outstanding  importance  is  of  record. 

LINCOLN — No.  69. 
LOCATION. — Central  Kentucky. 

SURFACE  GEOLOGY. — Ordoviciajn  Limestones,  Silurian 
Limestones,  Devonian  Limestones  and  Shales,  Mississip- 
pian Limestones. 

PHYSIOGRAPHY. — Rolling  to  rough. 

DRAINAGE. — Tributaries  of  the  Dix  and  Green  Rivers, 
and  Buck  and  Pine  Lick  Creeks  of  the  Cumberland 
River. 

STRUCTURAL  LOCATION. — On  the  south  nose  of  the  Lex- 
ington Dome  of  the  Cincinnati  Arch. 


152       OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 


LINCOLN  COUNTY  OIL  POOLS. 

OIL  AND  GAS  DEVELOPMENT. — This  county  contains  two 
oil  and  gas  pools  of  commercial  importance,  one  on 
Buck  Creek  and  the  other  on  Green  River.  Both  of 
these  are  small  pools  with  a  steady  production.  A  pipe 
line  connects  the  Buck  Creek  pool  at  King's  Mountain 
to  tank  car  station  on  the  Q.  &  C.  Railroad.  Consider- 
able development  is  going  forward  in  this  county,  prin- 
cipally in  the  southern  section  of  the  county,  where 
thick  covering  is  assured  for  the  Onondaga  Limestone. 

LIVINGSTON — No.  70. 

LOCATION, — This  county  is  located  in  the  faulted  sec- 
tion of  the  western  part  of  Kentucky,  adjoining  the  Ohio 
River,  and  is  therefore  unimportant  from  an  oil  and  gas 
prospecting  standpoint.  Recent  river  alluviums,  Pennsyl- 
vanian  outlyers,  and  Mississipipian  Limestones  are  the 
surface  rocks. 

LOGAN — No.  71. 


LOCATION. — Southwestern 
Tennessee  line. 


Kentucky,    adjoining    the 


SUEFACE  GEOLOGY. — Mississippian  Limestones  in  the 
south-central  section,  Coal  Measures  in  the  northwest- 


ern corner. 


DISTRIBUTION  OF  OIL  AND  GAS 


153 


PHYSIOGRAPHY. — Rolling,  except  in  the  northwestern 
section  where  topography  becomes  rugged,  due  to  the 
Coal  Measures. 

DRAINAGE. — Tributaries  of  the  Green  and  Cumberland 
Rivers. 

STRUCTURAL  LOCATION. — South  limb  of  the  Western 
Coal  Basin.  A  small  anticline  may  be  seen  at  Epley 
Station. 


THE  DIAMOND  SPRINGS  GAS  FIELD. 

OIL  AND  GAS  DEVELOPMENT. — The  Diamond  Springs 
Oil  pool  is  located  in  the  northwestern  section  of  this 
county,  close  to  the  Muhlenberg  line.  Production  is 
secured  on  a  strong  monoclinal  dip  to  the  north.  There 
is  considerable  development  going  on  in  this  county,  but 
no  oil  wells  of  commercial  importance  have  been  secured. 

LYON— No.  72. 

LOCATION. — This  county  is  located  in  the  southwestern 
part  of  Kentucky,  in  the  faulted  section,  and  is  there- 
fore considered  unfavorable  for  oil  and  gas  prospecting. 
Mississippian  Limestones  are  the  surficial  rocks. 


154       OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

MADISON — No.  73. 

LOCATION. — This  county  is  principally  a  Blue  Grass 
county,  located  in  the  central  portion  of  the  State. 

SURFACE  GEOLOGY. — The  southeastern  portion  of  the 
county  is  in  the  Knobs  section,  where  the  producing  oil 
sand  of  this  part  of  Kentucky  is  found  at  shallow  depth. 
No  production,  however,  of  striking  importance  has 
been  found.  Ordovician,  Silurian,  Devonian,  Mississip- 
pian,  and  Pennsylvanian  sediments  outcrop. 

MAGOFFIN — No.  74. 
LOCATION. — Eastern  Kentucky. 
SUEFACE  GEOLOGY. — Coal  Measures. 
PHYSIOGRAPHY. — Dissected  northwest  sloping  plateau. 
DRAINAGE. — Licking  Eiver. 

STRUCTURAL  LOCATION. — Magoffin  county  is  crossed  in 
its  northern  extremity  by  the  Irvine-Paint  Creek  Fault 
and  Fold,  and  on  the  northwestern  boundary  by  the 
Paint  Creek  Uplift.  It  contains  a  number  of  small 
structures,  important  from  the  standpoint  of  oil  and  gas 
prospecting.  Its  southern  extremity  is  crossed  by  the 
Eastern  Kentucky  Geosyncline.  The  important  sub- 
structures are :  The  Paint  Creek  Dome,  Rockhouse  Anti- 
cline, White  Oak  Anticline,  Johnson  Fork  Anticline  and 
Ivyton  Dome. 

OIL  AND  GAS  DEVELOPMENT. — A  considerable  amount 
of  oil  and  gas  development  has  gone  forward  in  Magof- 
fin county.  Production  is  proven  on  the  Paint  Creek 
Dome,  the  White  Oak  Anticline  and  the  Ivyton  Dome. 
The  producing  sands  are  the  Pottsville  of  the  Pennsyl- 
vanian System,  Wier  of  the  Mississippian  System  and 
the  Onondaga  (Corniferous)  of  the  Devonian.  Recent  de- 
velopments point  to  the  conclusion  that  the  Wier  sand 
will  be  a  very  important  producer  of  oil  in  this  county. 

MARION — No.  75. 

LOCATION. — This  is  essentially  a  Blue  Grass  county. 
It  offers  but  a  very  small  area  favorable  for  oil  and  gas 
prospecting,  except  in  its  southernmost  section.  Ordo- 


DISTRIBUTION  OF  OIL  AND  GAS  155 

vician,  Silurian,  Devonian,  and  Mississippian  limestones 
and  shales  are  the  rocks  found  at  the  surface. 

OIL  AND  GAS  DEVELOPMENT. — Very  little  prospecting 
has  been  done  in  this  county. 

MARSHALL — No.  76. 

LOCATION. — Marshall  county  is  located  in  the  Tennes- 
see River  Bend  section  of  the  Jackson  Purchase.  Quater- 
nary, Cretaceous,  and  Mississippian  sediments  outcrop. 

OIL  AND  GAS  DEVELOPMENT. — Its  oil  and  gas  possibili- 
ties are  unknown,  due  to  lack  of  development. 

MARTIN — No.  77. 

LOCATION. — Easternmost  Kentucky. 
SURFACE  GEOLOGY. — Coal  Measures. 
PHYSIOGRAPHY. — Maturely  dissected  plateau. 
DRAINAGE. — Tug  Fork  of  the  Big  Sandy  River. 

STRUCTURAL  LOCATION. — Bisected  by  the  Warfield  Anti- 
cline on  an  east-west  line. 

OIL  AND  GAS  DEVELOPMENT. — The  outstanding  proven 
gas  pool  of  importance  is  the  Inez  or  Martin  County 
Gas  Field,  which  occupies  a  crestal  position  on  the  War- 
field  anticline.  Gas  is  secured  from  the  Big  Lime  and 
Big  Injun  sands.  A  number  of  small  oil  wells  have  been 
drilled  in  this  county  principally  in  connection  with  gas 
prospecting.  No  separate  oil  pools  of  importance  have 
been  established  to  date. 

MASON— No.  78. 

LOCATION. — This  is  a  Blue  Grass  county,  and  is  there- 
fore, unimportant  from  an  oil  and  gas  standpoint.  Ordo- 
vician  Limestones  are  the  principal  surficial  rocks. 

McCRACKEN — NO.   79. 

LOCATION. — This  county  adjoins  the  Ohio  River  in  the 
northern  part  of  the  Jackson  Purchase  in  the  western 


156  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

part  of  Kentucky.  Quaternary  and  Cretaceous  sediments 
are  found  at  the  surface. 

OIL  AND  GAS  DEVELOp]tfENT. — Very  little  oil  and  gas 
development  has  gone  forward  in  this  county. 

McCREAEY— NO.   80. 

LOCATION. — Southern  Kentucky,  adjoining  the  Tennes- 
see line. 

SUEFACE  GEOLOGY. — Coal  Measures  in  the  upland,  Mis- 
sissippian  Limestones  in  the  river  bottoms. 

PHYSIOGRAPHY. — Maturely  dissected  plateau. 
DRAINAGE. — South  Fork  of  the  Cumberland  River. 

STRUCTURAL  LOCATION. — Just  northwest  of  the  East- 
ern Kentucky  Geosyncline. 

OIL  AND  GAS  DEVELOPMENT. — McCreary  county  is  the 
seat  of  the  first  oil  well  in  the  state  of  Kentucky,  which 
was  struck  on  South  Fork  of  the  Cumberland  River  in 
1819  by  Martin  Beatty,  of  Abingdon,  Virginia,  while 
drilling  for  salt  water.  This  county  was  then  a  part  of 
Wayne  county.  Since  then  oil  has  been  developed  in 
McCreary  county  at  various  points.  A  group  of  small 
and  rather  unimportant  pools  which  have  been  on  the 
pump  for  several  years  are  found  on  the  South  Fork. 
This  is  an  extension  of  the  Wayne  County  Oil  district. 
For  further  detail  see  Wayne  county. 

MCLEAN— No.  81. 

LOCATION. — Center  of  the  Western  Kentucky  Coal 
Fields. 

SURFACE  GEOLOGY. — Coal  Measures. 
PHYSIOGRAPHY. — River  plain  low,  undulating. 
DRAINAGE. — Green  River  and  its  tributaries. 

STRUCTURAL  LOCATION. — McLean  county  is  bisected  by 
the  Rough  Creek  Fault  and  Fold.  Its 'central  portion 
i?  an  area  of  local  uplift.  Its  northern  and  southern 
extremities  dip  from  the  central  section. 


DISTRIBUTION  OF  OIL  AND  GAS  157 

OIL  AND  GAS  DEVELOPMENT. — Some  little  prospecting 
has  been  carried  forward  in  this  county,  but  no  wells  of 
commercial  importance  have  been  developed.  Struc- 
ture exists  in  this  county  as  well  as  the  sequence  of  oil 
bearing  sands  and  it  is  possible  with  further  develop- 
ment that  oil  may  be  found  in  commercially  paying 
quantities. 

MEADE— No.  82. 

LOCATION. — Northwestern  Kentucky,  adjoining  the 
Ohio  River. 

SURFACE  GEOLOGY. — Mississippian  Limestones  and 
Shales. 

PHYSIOGRAPHY. — Eolling  and  river  plain. 

DRAINAGE. — Unimportant  tributaries  of  the  Ohio 
Eiver. 

STRUCTURAL  LOCATION. — Western  flank  of  the  Lexing- 
ton Dome  of  the  Cincinnati  Arch. 

OIL  AND  GAS  DEVELOPMENT. — Meade  county  is  the  seat 
of  the  Rock  Haven  Gas  Field  which  was  developed  a 
number  of  years  ago.  It  is  at  present  unimportant. 
Gas  production  was  secured  in  a  sand  inclusion  in  the 
Black  Shale.  Very  little  prospecting  is  going  forward  in 
this  county  at  the  present  time. 

MENIFEE — No.  83. 
LOCATION. — Northeastern  Kentucky. 

SURFACE  GEOLOGY. — Pottsville  Conglomerate,  St.  Gene- 
vieve  and  St.  Louis  Limestones. 

PHYSIOGRAPHY. — Maturely  dissected  plateau. 
DRAINAGE. — Tributaries  of  the  Kentucky  Eiver. 

STRUCTURAL  LOCATION. — High  up  on  the  eastern  flank 
of  the  Lexington  Dome  of  the  Cincinnati  Arch,  this 
county  contains  a  number  of  minor  folds.  The  Menifee 
gas  field  is  located  on  an  essentially  monoclinal 
structure. 


158  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES   OF  KENTUCKY 

OIL  AND  GAS  DEVELOPMENT. — Menifee  county  contains 
the  Menifee  Gas  field  which  is  located  in  the  western 
portion  of  the  county  and  overlaps  into  Powell  county 
in  the  southern  section.  This  field  was  developed  in 
1901,  the  field  gas  coming  from  the  porus  strata  in  the 
Onondaga.  This  field  has  been  largely  drilled  and  gas 
production  at  the  present  is  decreasing  in  importance. 
It  is  used  by  the  Central  Kentucky  Natural  Gas  Com- 
pany as  a  reservoir  supply  field  for  the  cities  of  Mt.  Ster- 
ling, Winchester,  Lexington,  Versailles,  Midway  and 
Frankfort.  Menifee  county  has  been  \videly  prospected 
and  oil  production  of  considerable  importance  has  been 
secured.  There  are  still  possibilities  of  new  pools  being 
found  in  Menifee  county.  Drilling  is  to  the  depth  of  six 
and  eight  hundred  feet. 

MERCER — No.  84. 

LOCATION. — This  is  a  Blue  Grass  county,  located  high 
on  the  Lexington  Dome  of  the  Cincinnati  Arch,  and 
may  be  considered  as  unimportant  from  the  standpoint 
of  oil  and  gas  prospecting.  Ordovician  Limestones 
proven  unproductive  in  this  part  of  the  State  are  the  sur- 
face rocks. 

METCALFE — No.  85. 
LOCATION. — Southern-Central  Kentucky. 

SURFACE  GEOLOGY. — Mississippian  Limestones  and 
Shales. 

PHYSIOGRAPHY. — Gently  rolling,  the  southern  section 
very  rugged. 

DRAINACJE. — Little  Barren  Eiver.  On  the  north  are 
found  the  head  waters  of  the  Big  Barren  River,  and  in 
the  southeastern  section  Marrowbone  Creek  of  the  Cum- 
berland River. 

STRUCTURAL  LOCATION. — Saddle  of  the  Cincinnati 
Arch,  between  the  Lexington  and  the  Nashville  Domes. 
Metcalfe  county  has  several  small  structures.  There  is 
one  with  a  doming  center  near  Beaumont.  Well  defined 
dips  are  found  to  the  south,  east  and  west.  The  dip  to 
the  north  is  not  as  definite. 


DISTRIBUTION  OF  OIL  AND  GAS  159 

OIL  AND  GAS  DEVELOPMENT. — One  deep  dry  hole  has 
been  drilled  in  this  county  about  two  miles  west  of  Beau- 
mont. At  Sulphur  Wells,  there  are  some  small  wells 
in  which  light  amber  oil  has  been  found  in  the  Waverly 
Shale.  Considerable  development  work  is  being  car- 
ried on  in  this  county.  It  is  possible  that  commercial  oil 
production  will  be  found  in  this  county  if  poms  or  sandy 
limestones  can  be  located. 


MONROE — No.  86. 

LOCATION. — Southern  Kentucky,  adjoining  the  Tennes- 
see Line. 

SURFACE  GEOLOGY. — Principally  Mississippian  Lime- 
stones, with  Devonian  and  Ordovician  sediments  in  the 
Cumberland  Eiver  in  the  southeastern  portion  of  the 
county.  No  Silurian  is  found  in  Monroe  county.  It 
is  also  important  to  note  that  the  Onondaga  (Corni- 
terous)  Limestone  does  not  underlie  the  Devonian  Black 
Shale  in  this  county. 

PHYSIOGRAPHY. — Boiling  to  rugged. 

DRAINAGE. — Head  water  tributaries  of  the  Big  Barren 
River  and  small  eastern  tributaries  of  the  Cumberland 
Eiver. 

STRUCTURAL  LOCATION. — On  the  northern  flank  of  the 
Nashville  Dome  of  the  Cincinnati  Arch. 

OIL  AND  GAS  DEVELOPMENT. — Very  little  oil  and  gas 
prospecting  has  gone  forward  in  this  county,  due  prin- 
cipally to  the  fact  that  the  Onondaga  is  absent  under 
the  greater  portion  of  the  county  and  the  section  is  some- 
what isolated.  In  all  probability  the  Silurian  is  also 
absent  under  the  surface  of  the  entire  county  with 
the  exception  of  the  western  portion.  The  Ordovician 
Limestones  are  present  under  Monroe  county,  and  in  all 
probability  oil  and  gas  will  be  secured  in  quantity  at  a 
later  date  in  this  county.  A  number  of  small  structures 
are  known  to  exist  in  this  county.  Recently  two  good 
oil  wells  were  brought  in  west  of  Tompkinsville. 


160       OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

MONTGOMERY — No.  87. 
LOCATION. — Central-Eastern  Kentucky. 

SURFACE  GEOLOGY. — This  county  is  practically  in  the 
Blue  Grass  section  of  the  state.  Its  southeastern  ex- 
tremity overlaps  into  the  Knobs  Begion,  where  consider- 
able prospecting  is  going  forward  and  a  few  successful 
wells  have  been  drilled.  No  wells  of  marked  commer- 
cial importance,  however,  have  been  secured.  The  sur- 
ficial  rocks  are  Ordovician,  Silurian,  Devonian,  Mississip- 
pian,  and  Pennsylvanian  sediments. 


MORGAN— No.  88. 
LOCATION. — Eastern  Kentucky. 
SURFACE  GEOLOGY. — Coal  Measures. 

PHYSIOGRAPHY. — Maturely  dissected  north  westward 
sloping  plateau. 

DRAINAGE. — Licking  River  and  its  tributaries. 

STRUCTURAL  LOCATION. — Middle  position  on  the  eastern 
flank  of  the  Lexington  Dome  of  the  Cincinnati  Arch. 
This  county  is  crossed  in  the  southern  extremity  by 
the  Irvine-Paint  Creek  Fault  and  Fold.  There  are 
besides  this  a  number  of  small  structures  in  the  north 
central  portion  of  the  county. 

OIL  AND  GAS  DEVELOPMENT. — Morgan  county  contains 
the  one  time  famous  Cannel  City  Oil  Pool,  which  was 
drilled  in  with  gusher  production  from  a  few  wells  in 
1912.  Some  of  these  wells  showed  flush  production 
which  reached  seven  hundred  barrels.  This  field  pro- 
duced its  maximum  of  twelve'  thousand  barrels  of  crude 
oil  per  month  in  1913.  Production  came  from  the  Onon- 
daga  Limestone,  and  was  held  in  the  porous  strata  on  the 
anticline.  Near  West  Liberty,  the  county  seat  of  Mor- 
gan county,  considerable  gas  has  been  found  and  a  large 
amount  of  prospecting  is  going  forward  now  within  the 
boundaries  of  this  county. 


DISTRIBUTION  OF  OIL  AND  GAS  161 

MUHLENBEKG No.  89. 

LOCATION. — This  county  is  located  in  the  southern- 
central  section  of  Western  Kentucky  Coal  Field. 

SURFACE  GEOLOGY. — Coal  Measures  except  in  southwest 
corner  where  the  underlying  Mississippian  Limestones 
are  exposed. 

PHYSIOGRAPHY. — Hilly  in  the  north,  rolling  in  the 
south. 

DRAINAGE. — Green  River  and  its  tributaries. 

STRUCGURAL  LOCATION. — Muhlenberg  county  is  bisect- 
ed by  the  Southwestern  Kentucky  Geosyncline. 

OIL  AND  GAS  DEVELOPMENT. — Producing  sands  of  the 
Pennsylvania!!  and  Mississippian  systems  are  present 
here,  but  mediumly  deep  drilling  will  be  required. 
There  are  no  oil  and  gas  pools  of  importance  in  this 
county. 

NELSON— No.  90. 

LOCATION. — Nelson  county  is  essentially  a  Blue  Grass 
county.  The  southern  portion,  however,  extends  into 
the  Knobs  section.  Ordovician,  Silurian,  Devonian,  and 
Mississippian  limestones  and  shales  are  found  at  the  sur- 
face. 

OIL  AND  GAS  DEVELOPMENT. — It  is  doubtful  if  large 
amounts  of  oil  and  gas  will  ever  be  found  in  this  county. 
The  southern  portion  of  the  county  exhibits  a  fair  cov- 
ering of  Mississippian  Limestones  and  the  Black  Shale. 
Some  little  development  has  gone  forward  in  this  county. 
A  number  of  test  wells  have  been  drilled  in  near  New 
Hope  without  much  success. 


NICHOLAS — No.  91. 

LOCATION. — This  is  a  Blue  Grass  county,  located  in  the 
northeastern  portion  of  the  state,  on  the  Licking  River. 
It  may  be  considered  unimportant  from  an  oil  and  gas 
standpoint.  Ordovician  Limestones  are  at  the  surface. 

Oil  &  Gas— 6. 


162  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES   OF  KENTUCKY 

OHIO— No.  92. 

LOCATION. — Eastern  portion  of  the  Western  Coal 
Field. 

SUEFACE  GEOLOGY. — Coal  Measures  except  in  the  cen- 
tral section  where  the  Rough  Creek  Fault  brings  up  the 
Mississippian  Limestones. 

PHYSIOGRAPHY. — Rolling  and  rugged. 
DRAINAGE, — Green  River  and  its  tributaries. 

STRUCTURAL  GEOLOGY. — Ohio  county  is  bisected  by  the 
Rough  Creek  Fault  and  Fold,  the  northern  and  southern 
extremities  of  the  county  dropping  down  to  the  north- 
west and  to  the  southwest  Kentucky  Geosynclines. 

OIL  AND  GAS  DEVELOPMENT. — An  oil  pool  of  consider- 
able importance  has  been  developed  on  the  south  flank 
of  the  Rough  Creek  Anticline  at  a  point  between  Sul- 
phur Springs  and  Hartford.  This  is  known  ?,«  the 
Hartford  Oil  Pool.  The  producing  sand  is  in  the  Waverly. 
With  the  Rough  Creek  Anticline  crossing  this  county  and 
the  producing  sands  of  Kentucky  present,  Ohio  county 
can  be  said  to  be  a  good  prospecting  county  from  an  oil 
and  gas  standpoint. 

OLDHAM — No.  93. 

LOCATION. — This  is  essentially  a  Blue  Grass  county, 
with  a  fringe  of  Devonian  and  Silurian  outliers  on  the 
western  boundaries. 

OIL  AND  GAS  DEVELOPMENT. — Although  some  gas  was 
developed  just  southwest  of  LaGrange  a  number  of 
years  ago  the  prospects  of  securing  either  oil  or  gas  in 
commercial  quantity  in  this  county  are  not  considered 
good.  Drilling  should  be  discouraged. 

OWEN — No.  94. 

LOCATION. — Owen  county  is  located  in  the  north-cen- 
tral part  of  the  Blue  Grass  section  of  the  state. 

SUKFACE  GEOLOGY. — The  surficial  rocks  of  this  county 
are  Ordovician  Limestones  which  are  faulted  to  a  degree 
that  alone  preludes  the  accumulation  of  oil  and  gas. 


DISTRIBUTION  OF  OIL  AND  GAS  163 

OIL  AND  GAS  DEVELOPMENT. — Little  development  work 
has  been  done  in  Owen  county  and  no  oil  or  gas  has  been 
secured.  This  county's  possibilities  for  oil  and  gas  are 
considered  very  poor. 

OWSLEY — No.  95. 

LOCATION. — Western  part  of  the  Eastern  Coal  Field. 
SURFACE  GEOLOGY. — Coal  Measures. 
PHYSIOGRAPHY. — Maturely  dissected  plateau. 
.   DRAINAGE. — South  Fork  of  the  Kentucky  River. 

STRUCTURAL  LOCATION. — Low  down  on  the  eastern 
flank  of  the  Cincinnati  Arch.  This  county  contains  a 
number  of  small  structures,  the  most  important  being 
in  the  northwestern  section  of  the  county  near  Travelers 
Eest. 

OIL  AND  GAS  DEVELOPMENT. — Considerable  oil  and  gas 
development  has  gone  forward  in  this  county.  Gas  in 
considerable  quantity  has  been  secured  on  a  definite 
structure  near  Travelers  Rest.  Only  a  small  amount  of 
oil  has  been  recovered.  It  is  possible  before  this  season 
is  over  a  few  small  oil  wells  will  be  reported. 

PENDLETON — No.  96. 

LOCATION. — Pendleton  county  is  located  in  the  north- 
ern part  of  Blue  Grass  section  and  is  therefore  unim- 
portant from  an  oil  and  gas  standpoint.  Ordovician 
Limestones  are  found  at  the  surface. 

PERRY— No.  97. 

LOCATION. — Center  of  the  Eastern  Coal  Fields. 
SURFACE  GEOLOGY. — Coal  Measures. 

PHYSIOGRAPHY. — Dissected  north  westward  sloping 
plateau. 

DRAINAGE. — North  Fork  of  the  Kentucky  River. 


164       OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

STRUCTURAL,  LOCATION. — Perry  county  is  located  in  the 
southeastern  flank  of  eastern  Kentucky's  Geosyncline 
which  crosses  the  county  in  its  northwestern  extremity. 

OIL  AND  GAS  DEVELOPMENT. — A  number  of  wells  have 
been  drilled  in  this  county,  but  no  oil  or  gas  of  commer- 
cial importance  has  been  secured.  The  county  has  large 
productive  possibilities  and  vast  areas  untested. 

TIKE— No.  98. 
LOCATION. — F.astern-most  county  in  Kentucky. 

SURFACE  GEOLOGY. — Principally  Coal  Measures,  with 
Devonian  and  Mississippian  sediments  outcropping 
along  the  Pine  Mountain  Fault  in  the  southwestern  sec- 
tion of  the  county. 


NORTHERN  FLANK  OF  PINE  MOUNTAIN  ANTICLINE. 
View  from  the  crest  of  the  Pine  Mountain  Anticline  down  the 
Russell  Fork  of  the  Levisa  Fork  (Pennsylvanian)  of  the  Big  Sandy 
River,  from  Virginia  into  Pike  County,  Kentucky.  Shows  northwest 
limb  of  the  fold  and  1,000  feet  of  the  Lee  formation.  Photo  by  W.  R. 
Jillson,  April  5,  1919. 

PHYSIOGRAPHY. — High  northwestward  sloping  pla- 
teau, maturely  dissected. 

DRAINAGE. — Levisa,  Tug,  and  Russell  Forks  of  the  Big 
Sandy  River,  and  their  tributaries. 


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DISTRIBUTION  OF  OIL  AND  GAS  165 

STRUCTURAL  LOCATION.  —  Pike  county  is  on  the  south- 
eastern flank  of  the  Eastern  Kentucky  Geosyncline 
which  crosses  it  in  the  northern  extremity.  A  number 
of  small  structures  exist  in  Pike  county.  Chief  among 
them  is  the  D  'Invillier  Anticline,  which  rises  between  the 
head  waters  of  the  Shelby  and  Marrowbone  Creeks  and 
extends  crescentricly  to  the  northeast,  crossing  the  Rus- 
sell and  Levisa  Forks  of  the  Big  Sandy  River  and  pro- 
essing toward  Williamson  in  Mingo  county,  West 
irginia.  The  Williamson  fold  is  probably  a  continua- 
tion of  the  D  'Invillier  structure.  The  Pine  Mountain 
Fault  and  Fold  crosses  the  southern  edge  of  Pike  county. 

OIL  AND  GAS  DEVELOPMENT.  —  A  number  of  wells  have 
been  drilled  in  Pike  county  into  the  Pottsville.  Some 
of  these  have  shown  gas  in  considerable  quantity,  but 
this  gas  is  not  now  being  commercialized.  In  the 
northern  part  of  the  county  a  number  of  wells  have 
reached  the  Devonian  but  oil  in  paying  quantities  has 
not  been  found.  The  Pottsville  is  about  one  thousand 
feet  thick  below  drainage  and  contains  the  Beaver,  Hor- 
ton  and  Pike  sands,  all  of  which  may  be  looked  upon  as 
paying  sands  when  accompanied  by  favorable  structure. 
The  sand  inclusion  in  the  Big  Lime  of  the  Mississippian 
system  is  a  gas  producer.  Due  to  the  extreme  thickness 
of  the  Upper  Paleozoic  sediments  in  this  section,  the 
Onondaga,  the  producing  horizon  of  the  Irvine  Field, 
would  not  be  encountered  here,  except  at  a  very  deep 
depth.  The  Big  Injun  and  Wier  sands  will  probably  de- 
velop gas  and  oil  production  respectively. 


POWELL— No.  99. 

LOCATION. — Western  portion  of  the  Eastern  Coal 
Field. 

SURFACE  GEOLOGY. — Limited  outcrops  of  the  Ordovi- 
cian  Limestones  in  the  extreme  northwestern  section  of 
the  county.  Progressing  to  the  southeast  the  Silurian 
Limestones,  Devonian  Limestones  and  Shales,  Missis- 
sippian Limestones,  and  the  Pennsylvanian  Conglom- 
erate appear. 


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OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 


AN  EVEN  SKY-LINE  OF  POTTSVILLE  CONGLOMERATE. 
View  on  the  Mary  Adams  farm  in  Powell  County,  adjoining  the 
northern    boundary    of    Lee    County.     The     drilling    is     done     undef 
topographic  difficulties.    There  are  about  thirty  wells  on  the  lease. 
Photo  by  W.  R.  Jillson,  April,  1919. 


PHYSIOGEAPHY. — Knob  section,  rough  topography. 
DRAINAGE. — Red  Eiver,  a  fork  of  the  Kentucky  River. 

STRUCTURAL  LOCATION. — Middle  position  on  the  east- 
ern flank  of  the  Lexington  Dome  of  the  Cincinnati  Arch. 
The  southern  extremity  of  Powell  county  is  crossed  by 
the  Irvine-Paint  Creek  Fault  and  Fold.  There  are  also 
several  small  structures  found  in  this  county. 

OIL  AND  GAS  DEVELOPMENT. — Powell  county  contains 
a  number  of  oil  pools.  Among  them  are  the  Ashley 
pool,  one  of  the  most  important  in  the  Irvine  section. 
Flush  production  was  secured  in  a  number  of  gusher 
wells  from  porous  strata  in  the  Onondaga  Limestone 
lying  on  a  fold  along  the  Irvine-Paint  Creek  Fault.  The 
northern  portion  of  Powell  county  contains  the  southerp 
extremity  of  Menifee  Gas  Field.  A  large  amount  of 
drilling  has  been  done  in  this  county. 


DISTRIBUTION  OF  OIL  AND  GAS  167 

PULASKI— NO.  100. 

LOCATION. — South-Central  Kentucky. 

SURFACE  GEOLOGY. — Coal  Measures  in  the  eastern,  and 
Mississippian  Limestones  in  the  central  and  western 
portions  of  the  county.  About  five  miles  west  of  Somer- 
set the  sequence  of  Ordovician  sediments  are  exposed  in 
and  near  Fishing  Creek. 

DRAINAGE. — Cumberland  River  and  its  tributaries. 

STRUCTURAL  LOCATION. — East  saddle  (position  between 
the  Lexington  and  Nashville  Domes  on  the  Cincinnati 
Arch. 

OIL  AND  GAS  DEVELOPMENT. — A  number  of  wells  have 
been  drilled  in  this  county,  and  some  oil  and  gas  has 
been  secured,  but  to  date  oil  and  gas  in  commercial 
quantity  has  not  been  secured.  Somerset,  the  county 
seat,  through  which  passes  the  Cumberland  Pipe  Line, 
gives  its  name  to  practically  all  of  the  Eastern  Ken- 
tucky oil  which  is  designated  as  " Somerset  Grade." 
The  only  eastern  Kentucky  production  excluded  from 
the  Somerset  grade  is  the  low  gravity  crude  of  the  Rag- 
land  Pool  of  Bath,  Eowan  and  Menifee  counties. 

EOBERTSON NO.   101. 

LOCATION. — Robertson  county  is  located  in  the  north- 
eastern part  of  the  state,  in  the  Blue  Grass  area  of  the 
State.  It  is,  therefore,  unimportant  from  an  oil  and  gas 
standpoint.  Ordovician  Limestones  are  the  surface  rocks. 

ROCKCASTLE No.   102. 

LOCATION. — Central  Kentucky. 

SURFACE  GEOLOGY. — Principally  Coal  Measures  and 
Missis&ippian  Limestones  with  small  inliers  of  the 
Devonian  Black  Shale. 

PHYSIOGRAPHY. — Very  rugged,  due  to  widespread  dis- 
section of  the  erosion-resisting  Pottsville  Conglomerate 

DRAINAGE. — Rockcastle  River  and  its  tributaries. 


168       OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

STKUCTURAL  LOCATION. — Well  up  on  the  southeast  flank 
of  the  Lexington  Dome  of  the  Cincinnati  Anticline. 

OIL  AND  GAS  DEVELOPMENT. — Rockcastle  county  has 
experienced  a  considerable  amount  of  oil  and  gas 
development  but  to  date  no  oil  or  gas  pool  of  commercial 
importance  has  been  developed  within  its  boundaries. 

ROWAN— No.  103. 
LOCATION. — Northeastern  Kentucky. 

SURFACE  GEOLOGY. — Silurian,  Devonian,  Mississippian 
and  Pennsylvania!!  Limestones  and  shales.  The  Potts- 
ville  Conglomerate  overlaps  into  the  southeastern  section 
of  this  county. 

PHYSIOGRAPHY. — Rolling  to  Rough. 

DRAINAGE. — North  Fork  of  the  Licking  River  and  its 
tributaries. 

STRUCTURAL  LOCATION. — Middle  high  position  on  the 
Lexington  Dome  of  the  Cincinnati  Anticline. 

OIL  AND  GAS  DEVELOPMENT. — A  considerable  number  of 
wells  have  been  drilled  in  Rowan  county.  The  oil  pool  of 
outstanding  importance  within  the  county  is  the  Ragland, 
which  crosses  the  Licking  River  in  the  southern  part  of 
the  county. 

RUSSELL — No.  104. 
LOCATION. — Central-Southern  Kentucky. 

SURFACE  GEOLOGY. — This  county  is  located  in  the  saddle 
between  the  Lexington  and  the  Nashville  Domes  on  the 
Cincinnati  Arch.  It  is  doubtful  if  any  Onondaga  or 
Niagaran  Limestones  underlie  the  surface  of  the  county 
except  in  a  very  small  portion. 

OIL  AND  GAS  DEVELOPMENT. — Only  a  small  amount  of 
drilling  has  been  done  in  this  county ;  a  few  small  struc- 
.  tures  are  found,  and  the  county's  possibilities  for  oil  and 
gas  are  undetermined  for  this  reason.  Pay  might  be 
secured  in  the  Ordovician  Limestones  beneath  the  Black 
Shale  but  the  prospects  are  not  very  good. 


DISTRIBUTION  OF  OIL  AND  GAS  169 

SCOTT — No.  105. 

LOCATION. — This  county  is  located  in  the  heart  of  the 
Blue  Grass  section  of  Kentucky,  and  is  considered  unde- 
sirable for  oil  and  gas  testing.  Ordovician  Limestones 
are  the  surficial  rocks. 


SHELBY— No.  106. 

LOCATION. — Shelby  county  is  located  in  the  western  por- 
tion of  the  Blue  Grass. 

SURFACE  GEOLOGY. — The  surficial  rocks  are  Ordovician 
Limestones. 

OIL  AND  GAS  DEVELOPMENT. — The  prospects  for  oil  and 
gas  in  this  county  are  considered  of  very  doubtful 
importance. 

SIMPSON — No.  107. 

LOCATION. — Southern  Kentucky,  adjoining  the  Tennes- 
see Line. 

SURFACE  GEOLOGY. — Mississippian  Limestones. 
PHYSIOGRAPHY. — Rolling. 

DRAINAGE. — Tributaries  of  Drakes  Creek  of  Big  Barren 
River. 

STRUCTURAL  LOCATION. — This  county  lies  in  a  medial 
position  on  the  north  flank  of  the  Nashville  Dome  of  the 
Cincinnati  Anticline.  A  number  of  small  anticlines  occur 
in  this  county. 

OIL  AND  GAS  DEVELOPMENT. — Within  the  last  few  years 
considerable  prospecting  has  been  done  for  both  oil  and 
gas  in  this  county,  and  both  have  been  secured  though  not 
in  large  quantity.  Due  to  the  rapid  northwestern  dip  of 
the  Onondaga  and  Silurian  Limestones  Simpson  county 
may  be  looked  upon  as  an  important  prospecting  county. 
Its  structural  location  is  equally  as  good  as  that  of  Bar- 
ren and  Warren  Counties.  To  date,  however,  no  consider- 
able area  of  porous  or  sandy  limestone  has  been  located. 


170       OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

SPENCER— No.  108. 
LOCATION. — This  is  a  Blue  Grass  county. 

SUKFACE  GEOLOGY. — The  surficial  rocks  are  Ordovician 
Limestones. 

OIL  AND  GAS  DEVELOPMENT. — Spencer  county  is  consid- 
ered of  very  little  importance  from  an  oil  and  gas  stand- 
point. 

TAYLOK— No.  109. 
LOCATION. — Central  Kentucky. 

SUEFACE  GEOLOGY. — Principally  Mississippian  Lime- 
stones with  exception  of  a  small  area  of  Devonian  Shale 
in  the  creek  bottoms,  in  the  eastern  section  of  the  county. 

PHYSIOGRAPHY. — Rolling. 

DRAINAGE. — Tributaries  of  the  Green  River. 

STRUCTURAL  LOCATION. — Taylor  county  lies  on  the  sad- 
dle between  the  Lexington  and  Nashville  Domes  of  the 
Cincinnati  Arch.  A  westward  plunging  anticline  may  be 
found  just  north  of  Saloma. 

OIL  AND  GAS  DEVELOPMENT. — A  number  of  wells  have 
been  drilled  in  this  county  and  some  production  secured, 
but  to  date  no  oil  or  gas  pools  of  first  rank  have  been 
proven  in  this  county.  Several  dry  holes  have  been 
drilled  in  Taylor  but  these  may  not  be  taken  to  condemn 
this  area.  Open,  porous,  or  sandy  limestones  do  not  seem 
to  be  widely  distributed  in  this  county. 

TODD— No.  110. 
LOCATION. — Southwestern  Kentucky. 

SURFACE  GEOLOGY. — Mississippian  Limestones  in  the 
southwestern  section  of  the  county.  Coal  Measures  in 
the  northern  section. 

PHYSIOGRAPHY. — Rolling  in  the  south-central  section 
and  rugged  in  the  north. 


DISTRIBUTION  OF  OIL  AND  GAS  171 

DRAINAGE. — North  flank  and  tributaries  of  the  Green 
River,  and  southern  tributaries  of  the  Cumberland  River. 

STRUCTURAL  LOCATION. — Middle  position  on  the  north 
flank  of  the  Nashville  Dome  of  the  Cincinnati  Anticline. 

OIL  AND  GAS  DEVELOPMENT. — Very  little  oil  and  gas 
development  has  gone  forward  in  this  county,  and  its 
possibilities  as  an  oil  and  gas  producing  county  is  very 
uncertain. 

TRIGG— No.  111. 

LOCATION. — This  county  is  located  in  the  Mississippian 
Limestone  section,  in  southwestern  Kentucky,  adjoining 
the  Tennessee  Line. 

SURFACE  GEOLOGY. — Trigg  county  is  partly  within  the 
greatly  faulted  section  of  western  Kentucky  and  its 
potentialities  for  oil  and  gas  are  not  considered  very 
good. 

TRIMBLE — No.  112. 

LOCATION. — This  is  essentially  a  Blue  Grass  county. 
Located  in  the  northwestern  part  of  Kentucky  adjoming 
the  Ohio  River. 

SURFACE  GEOLOGY. — The  surficial  rocks  are  Ordovician 
Limestones  with  a  few  outliers  of  the  Silurian.  The  pos- 
sibilities for  oil  and  gas  are  considered  very  poor. 

UNION— No.  113. 

LOCATION. — Western  edge  of  the  Western  Coal  Fields 
of  Kentucky. 

SURFACE  GEOLOGY. — Principally  Coal  Measures  with 
river  deposits  along  the  Ohio  River. 

PHYSIOGRAPHY. — Rolling  to  rough. 

DRAINAGE. — Highland  Creek  and  the  tributaries  of  the 
Ohio  River. 

STRUCTURAL  LOCATION. — Union  county  is  bisected  by  the 
Rough  Creek  Fault  and  Fold. 


172       OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

OIL  AND  GAS  DEVELOPMENT. — A  number  of  wells  have 
been  drilled  in  this  county,  but  oil  or  gas  in  important 
commercial  quantities  has  not  been  secured.  Several 
small  oil  wells  of  doubtful  value  are  located  in  this  county. 
A  small  amount  of  prospecting  is  going  forward. 

WAREEN — No.  114. 
LOCATION. — Southern  Kentucky. 

SURFACE  GEOLOGY. — Principally  Mississippian  Lime- 
stones with  a  few  outliers  of  the  Coal  Measures  in  the 
northwestern  section  of  the  county. 

PHYSIOGRAPHY. — Boiling  to  Bugged  in  the  central  and 
southwestern  sections,  and  very  hilly  in  the  northwestern 
portion. 

DRAINAGE. — Big  Barren  Biver  and  its  tributaries 
including  Drakes  Creek. 


SHOOTING     BOHON     NO.     1,     WARREN  COUNTY,   KY. 
Photo  by  W.   R.   Jillson,   1919. 


DISTRIBUTION  OF  OIL  AND  GAS  173 

STRUCTURAL  LOCATION. — Warren  county  lies  on  the 
northern  flank  of  the  Nashville  Dome  of  the  Cincinnati 
Anticline.  There  is  a  constant  northwestward  normal 
dip  throughout  this  county.  A  number  of  small  struc- 
tures are  to  be  seen  throughout  the  county.  One  of  the 
most  pronounced  of  these  is  located  just  to  the  northwest 
of  Bowling  Green,  Kentucky. 

OIL  AND  GAS  DEVELOPMENT. — A  large  number  of  wells 
have  been  drilled  in  the  southeastern  portion  of  Warren 
County.  The  present  tendency  in  this  section  of  the  State 
is  from  Barren  and  Allen  Counties  into  Warren  County. 
A  large  number  of  wells  are  being  drilled  and  the  zenith 
of  the  field  development  of  this  county  is  still  distant. 
Several  pools  of  outstanding  importance  have  been  devol- 
oped  in  the  county.  The  chief  among  them  is  the  Moul- 
der Pool  in  the  eastern  section  of  the  county,  adjoining 
Barren  and  Allen  Counties  on  the  Barren  River.  The 
Onondaga  Limestone,  the  producer  of  the  Allen  county 
field  is  known  to  be  productive  in  this  county.  There  are 
some  indications  that  this  horizon  thickens  towards  the 
northwest.  Within  a  short  distance  of  Drakes  postoffice 
in  the  southeastern  section  of  this  county  oil  has  been 
found  at  a  depth  of  one  hundred  and  fifteen  feet  below 
the  surface  in  a  stray  sand  of  the  Mississippian,  Fort 
Payne.  The  oil  is  of  a  rather  high  gravity,  and  has  a 
greenish-amber  color.  The  striking  of  this  small  well 
establishes  proven  sands  at  shallow  depth  in  the  Missis- 
sippian, and  gives  added  attraction  to  wild  cat  drilling 
in  the  county.  Considerable  production  has  been  develop- 
ed near  Green  Hill  in  the  southeastern  section  of  the 
county. 

WASHINGTON — No.  115. 

LOCATION. — Washington  county  is  located  in  the  Blue 
Grass  Section  of  Kentucky.  It  is  considered  unimport- 
ant for  oil  and  gas  prospecting.  The  surficial  rocks  are 
Ordovician  Limestones  with  a  few  outliners  of  the  Silur- 
ian Limestones. 

WAYNE— No.  116. 

LOCATION. — Central-Southern  Kentucky,  adjoining  the 
Tennessee  Line. 


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OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 


SURFACE  GEOLOGY. — Highlands  in  the  southeastern  sec- 
tion of  the  county  are  capped  by  the  Pottsville  Conglo- 
merate of  the  Pennsylvanian.  The  northwestern  section 
of  the  county  is  covered  by  Mississippian  Limestones. 
Some  of  the  creeks  draining  the  northwestern  section 
into  the  Cumberland  River  disclose  the  sequence  of  the 
Mississippian-Devonian  Ordovician  sediments.  The  Sil- 
urian underlies  the  central  and  eastern  sections  of  the 
county. 

PHYSIOGRAPHY. — Rugged  to  rough. 


£'    C       OCT      T 


WAYNE  AND  CUMBERLAND  OIL  FIELDS. 

These  fields  are  among  those  of  particular  interest  to  Kentuckians 
as  they  contain  not  only  the  oldest  oil  well  in  this  State  but  probably 
the  world.  The  Beatty  well  on  the  south  fork  of  the  Cumberland  River 
was  drilled  in  with  flowing  production  in  1819. 

DRAINAGE. — North  and  northwestern  tributaries  of  the 
Cumberland  River. 

STRUCTURAL  LOCATION. — Wayne  county  is  located  at  an 
extreme  point  on  the  northeastern  flank  of  the  Nashville 
Dome.  The  saddle  of  the  Cincinnati  Anticline  is  directly 
to  the  northwest  of  this  county. 


DISTRIBUTION  OF  OIL  AND  GAS  175 

OIL  AND  GAS  DEVELOPMENT. — Wayne  county  is  one  of 
Kentucky's  well  known  oil  and  gas  fields,  and  adjoins  the 
area  of  McCreary  county  just  east  where  the  first  oil  well 
in  this  State  was  struck.  Oil  and  gas  are  both  secured  nr 
this  county  over  a  considerable  and  widespread  district 
area.  The  pools  are  for  the  most  part  on  monoclinal  and 
anticlinal  structures  dipping  to  the  southeast.  Structure, 
however,  is  not  the  only  factor  in  Wayne  county  accumu- 
lation. Porosity,  sand  lensing,  and  water  conditions  are 
also  important  in  this  county.  A  very  large  number  of 
wells  have  been  drilled  in  Wayne  county.  The  following 
sands  produce:  The  Stray,  Mt.  Pisgah,  Beaver,  Otter, 
Cooper  and  Slickford.  All  of  these  sands  are  found  in 
the  Waverly  of  the  Mississippian  System.  Below  these 
in  the  Ordovician  occur  the  Upper  Sunny  Brook,  Lower 
Sunny  Brook,  Trenton,  Lower  Sand  and  Deep  Sand. 
The  Silurian  and  Devonian  are  not  productive  in  this 
county  and  if  present  in  all  probability  do  not  cover  but  a 
small  section  in  the  northeastern  portion  of  the  county. 
The  Cumberland  Pipe  Line  Company  serves  this  field. 

WEBSTEK — No.  117. 

LOCATION. — This  county  is  located  in  the  western  por- 
tion of  the  Coal  Fields  of  western  Kentucky. 

SURFACE  GEOLOGY. — The  surficial  rocks  belong  to  the 
Coal  Measures.  The  northern  portion  of  this  county  is 
crossed  by  the  Rough  Creek  Fault  and  Fold. 

OIL  AND  GAS  DEVELOPMENT. — A  considerable  amount  of 
wild  cat  drilling  has  been  done  in  this  county,  but  no  wells 
of  commercial  importance  have  been  secured. 

WHITLEY — No.  118. 
LOCATION. — Southeastern  Kentucky. 
SURFACE  GEOLOGY. — Coal  Measures. 
PHYSIOGRAPHY. — Deeply  dissected  plateau. 

DRAINAGE. — Headwaters  and  tributaries  of  the  Cum- 
berland River. 


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OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 


STRUCTURAL  LOCATION. — Whitley  county  is  bisected  by 
the  Eastern  Kentucky  Geosyncline. 

OIL  AND  GAS  DEVELOPMENT. — A  number  of  wells  have 
'been  drilled  in  Whitley  county  but  to  date  no  production 
of  commercial  importance  has  been  secured. 

WOLFE— No.  119. 
LOCATION. — Eastern  Kentucky. 

SURFACE  GEOLOGY. — Principally  Coal  Measures  with 
Mississippian  Limestones  in  the  creek  bottoms  in  the 
extreme  northwestern  portion  of  the  county. 

PHYSIOGRAPHY. — Maturely  dissected  plateau. 

DRAINAGE. — North  Fork  and  other  tributaries  of  the 
Kentucky  Elver. 


VIEW  AT  TORRENT,  WOLFE  COUNTY,  KY. 
Photo  by  O.  Wolf,  1918. 

STRUCTURAL  LOCATION. — Wolfe  county  is  bisected  by 
the  Irvine-Paint  Creek  Fault  and  Fold.  The  county  has 
a  position  well  down  on  the  eastern  flank  of  the  Lexington 
Dome  of  the  Cincinnati  Anticline.  A  number  of  small 
structures  radiate  from  and  parallel  the  Irvine-Paint 
Creek  Fault  and  Fold. 


DISTRIBUTION  OF  OIL  AND  GAS  177 

OIL,  AND  GAS  DEVELOPMENT. — Wolfe  county  is  one  of  the 
established  oil  and  gas  producing  counties  of  the  state  of 
Kentucky.  It  has  within  its  boundaries  a  number  of 
very  important  wells.  These  are  found  in  an  extension 
of  the  Irvine  pool  just  west  of  Torrent,  the  old  Campton 
pool,  and  the  Hazel  Green  pool.  A  large  percentage  of 
the  drilling  in  this  county  has  been  successful,  and  all  of 
the  oil  and  gas  producing  areas  are  not  yet  thoroughly 
known.  Some  areas  on  structure,  however,  have  proven 
barren.  There  are  indications  that  new  pools  of  com- 
mercial importance  will  still  be  discovered  within  the 
boundaries  of  this  county.  The  Onondaga  Limestone, 
which  contains  oil  in  commercial  quantities,  is  the  produc- 
ing ' '  sand ' '  in  this  county. 

WOODFORD — No.  120. 

LOCATION. — Woodford  is  the  Central  Blue  Grass  county 
of  the  State  of  Kentucky,  and  is  considered  unimportant 
for  oil  and  gas  testing.  Unproductive  upper  and  lower 
Ordovician  Limestones  form  the  surface  strata.  Pros- 
pecting for  oil  and  gas  in  this  county  is  discouraged. 


CHAPTER  VIII. 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS. 

Herewith  are  presented  the  records  of  752  wells  drilled 
in  Kentucky.  This  number  represents  only  a  small  por- 
tion of  the  total  number  of  oil  and  gas  wells  actually  drill- 
ed. A  very  great  many  wells  have  been  drilled  on  which 
no  complete  records  were  kept.  This  is  especially  true  in 
the  larger  fields  such  as  the  Estill,  Lee,  Allen  and  Wayne 
county  pools,  where  the  drillers  and  operators  were  only 
interested  in  the  actual  depth  of  the  producing  sand  below 
the  surface.  In  other  cases,  where  records  were  kept,  the 
owners  exhibiting  selfish  motives  have  objected  to  publi- 
cation. Enough  records  are  given,  however,  to  faithfully 
represent  nearly  all  parts  of  the  State  in  which  drilling 
has  been  done,  showing  the  character  of  the  material 
drilled  through,  and  the  relative  positions  of  the  oil  and 
gas  sands. 

In  these  records  the  position  of  the  Black  Shale  (desig- 
nated Devonian)  is  given  wherever  possible.  This  is 
simply  intended  as  a  guide  to  the  driller.  It  is  not  always 
the  case  that  only  that  which  is  so  marked  represents 
and  delimits  the  Devonian  in  that  particular  section. 
In  some  of  the  records  a  portion  of  what  is  called  ' '  Black 
Shale"  by  the  driller  really  belongs  in  the  Mississippian 
System  while  in  a  great  many  of  them,  some  of  the  for- 
mations below  the  Black  Shale  are  also  Devonian. 

The  thickness  of  coal  seams  given  in  these  records  can- 
not be  considered  as  reliable,  for  mining  index  purposes. 
In  some  cases  the  thickness  is  obviously  too  great  and  in 
others  what  is  called  coal  may  only  be  black  shale.  A 
few  records  of  interest  of  wells  drilled  just  outside  the 
State  lines  have  been  added.  Practically  all  of  the  rec- 
ords here  given  have  been  edited  by  the  author,  divisions 
having  been  made  according  to  the  various  geologic  sys- 
tems, e.  g.,  Pennsylvanian,  Mississippian,  Devonian,  Sil- 
urian, Ordovician,  etc.  This  has  been  done  to  help  in  an 
understanding  of  the  subsurface  stratigraphy  of  each 
county. 

178 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS  179 

ALLEN  COUNTY. 

LOG  No.  1. 

J.  H.  CARTER  FARM 

Northeast  of  Adolphus. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 
Unrecorded,  152. 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Top  of  Black  Shale  ....  )  0  152 

Base  of  Black  Shale  ...  \  (Devonian) 43  ^ 

Sulphur  water  1  196 

Oil  sand  (lime?) 4  200 

Lime   21  221 

Sand    (lime?)   4  225 

Blue  clay  28  253 

Sand    (lime?)    4  257 

Slate   14  271 

Lime  552  823 

Sand   (?) 76  899 


LOG  No.  2. 

WIDOW  LANE  FARM 

Near  Tennessee  Line. 

Strata                                                             Thickness  Depth 
MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil   5  5 

Lime  65  70 

Sand    20  90 

Blue  lime 40  130 

Slate  5  135 

Sand   10  145 

Slate  „ 5  150 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black   Shale  55  205 

Gray  lime  30  235 

Oil-sand   (lime?)   10  245 

Blue  lime  20  265 

White  lime  3  268 

Well  was  dry. 


380       OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

LOG  No.  3. 

KEEN  WELL  NO.  7— RODEMER  POOL. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Lime  and  Shale  120  120 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  Shale  43  163 

Blue  lime 11  174 

Brown    sand    (lime?)    3  177 

Light  lime  6  183 

Brown  sand   (lime?)   Pay  sand 9  192 

Hard  lime  2  194 

Light  blue  lime  9  203 

Dark  lime  2  205 

Gray  lime  1  206 

Dark  lime  6  212 

Blue  lime 10  222 

Light  blue  lime 3  225 

LOG  No.  4.  ROSA  HOLDER  FARM. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil    28  28 

White  lime  158  186 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  Shale  (Devonian)  41  227 

Lime— Gas  show  at  245— Water  at  320 98  325 

LOG  No.  5. 

SETTLES  WELL— No.  3. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Casing    81  81 

Limestone  119  200 

Green   shale   3  203 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  45  248 

Dark  lime  (oil  smell)  5  253 

Hard  lime  10  263 

Brown  oil-sand  (lime?)     Gas 13  276 

Oil  show  at  276 

Shaly  lime  14  290 

Dark  brown  sand  (lime?)     Oil  show  5  295 

Hard  blue  lime  6  301 

Sandy  lime — Oil  show 2  308 

Hard  blue  and  shaly  lime  20  328 

Hard  sand  (?)  1  329 

Salt  water  ...  5  334 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS  181 

LOG  No.   6. 

OCALA  OIL  CO.— No.  4. 
Frost  Farm,  3  miles  South  of  Scottsville. 

Strata  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Unrecorded,  210. 
DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Top  of  black  shale  at... )  210 

Base  of  black  shale  at }  (Devonian) 25? 

First  oil  show  at 271 

Oil  at 282 

Bottom  of  well  at 287 

LOG  No.  7. 

OCALA  OIL  CO.— No.  5. 

Strata  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Unrecorded,  223. 
DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Top    of    biaok    shale    at j  .         223 

Base  of  black  shale  at {  (Devonian) 269 

First  pay  at  294 

Salt  water  at  308 

LOG  No.  8 

OCALA  OIL  CO.— No.  6. 

Strata  Depth 

MISSISSI1PPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Unrecorded,  209. 
DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Top  of  black  shale  at )  209 

Base  of  black  shale  at.... }  (Devonian) 256 

Oil  and  water  at 283 

Oil  at  298 

LOG  No.  9. 

ROY  GILLIAM  FARM— GAS  CREEK, 

East  of  Adolphus. 

Strata  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Unrecorded,  69. 
DEVONIAN  SYSTEM., 

Top  of  black  shale  at  ..  }  69 

Base  of  black  shale  at  ..  f  (Devonian)   102 

Oil   and   water   at 103 

Water  to  ...  159 


182                 OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES   OF  KENTUCKY 

LOG  No.  10. 

WALKER  WELL.— No.  1. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Lime  127  127 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  Shale 50  177 

Cap  rock  4  181 

Dark  gray,  sandy  lime  20  201 

Brown  lime — Oil  show 12  213 

Sandy  shale  12  225 

Lime  and  brown  sand — Oil  smell 8  233 

Dark  muddy  shale  12  245 

Dark  sandy  shale  8  253 

Dark  muddy  shale  17  270 

White  water  sand  (lime?)  fresh  water 2  272 


LOG  No.  11. 

RUSH  WELL.— No.  1. 
Western  edge  of  Allen  County. 

(Partial  record). 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Shale   45  45 

Hard  lime  40  85 

Sand— Oil   show   59  144 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  Shale 116  200 

Cap  rock  8  268 

Dry  sand  (lime?)  _ 

Lime  

Dry  sand  (lime?)  

Bluish-green  shale  ...       to  405 


LOG  No.  12. 

WELL   ON   BIG   TRAMMEL    CREEK, 
Five  miles  southwest  of  Scottsville. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil    12  12 

Blue  limestone  ....  90  102 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS 


183 


DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  Shale  

Black  rock— Oil  at  127 

Blue   limestone   

White  sand    (lime?)    

Black  rock — Gas  at  193 

Soft  sand  rock  (lime?) 

Yellow  flinty  sand  (lime?)  salt  water. 

"Trenton"  rock* 

Blue   limestone  

"Trenton"  (light)  

*"Trenton"  is  driller's  distinction. 


13 

12 

40 

20 

6 

10 
2 

600 

200 

85 


115 
127 
167 
187 
193 
203 
205 
805 
1005 
1090 


LOG  No.  13. 

WELL  AT  PETROLEUM. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil   10  10 

Blue  limestone       30  40 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  Shale  9  49 

Light  gray  sandstone  (lime?)  

Oil  at  132  ....  83  132 


LOG  No.  14. 

GAINESVILLE  OOL. 
J.  R.  JOHNSON  No.  1. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil    7  7 

Limestone    184  191 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  47  238 

Blue   limestone  6  244 

Lime   sand   36  280 

LOG  No.  15. 

J.  R.  JOHNSON  No.  2. 
Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil   5  5 

Limestone  177  182 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  45  227 

Blue  limestone  7  234 

Lime   sand    ..  1  235 


184  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES   OF  KENTUCKY 

LOG  No.  16. 

J.  R.  JOHNSON  No.  3. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil    6  6 

Limestone  166  172 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale — Devonian  49  221 

Blue  limestone 71  292 

Lime  sand  4  290 

Limestone    14  310 

LOG  No.  17. 

J.  R.  JOHNSON  No.  4. 
Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil    6  6 

Limestone   166  172 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black    shale   42  214 

Blue   limestone   5  219 

Lime  sand  28  247 

Limestone  7  254 

LOG  No.  18. 

J.  R.  JOHNSON  No.  5. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil    4  4 

Limestone   234  243 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black   shale   44  2S7 

Blue   limestone   5  292 

Lime    sand   60  332 

Black  limestone  94  446 

LOG  No.  19. 

J.  R.  JOHNSON  No.  7. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil    8  8 

Limestone  234  242 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black   shale   46  288 

Blue  limestone  5  293 

Lime  sand  83  376 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS 


185 


LOG  No.  20. 

J.  R.  JOHNSON  No.  8. 
Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil    18  18 

Limestone  ...  254  272 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black   shale   46  318 

Blue  limestone  6  324 

Lime  sand  57  381 

Black  limestone 70  451 

LOG  No.  21. 

J.  R.  JOHNSON  No.  9. 
Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil  6  6 

Limestone   265  271 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  46  317 

Blue  limestone  5  322 

Lime    sand   13  335 

Black  limestone   1 75  410 

LOG  No.  22. 

J.  R.  JOHNSON  No.  10. 
Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil    18  18 

Limestone   268  286 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black   shale   44  330 

Blue  limestone  5  335 

Lime  sand  15  350 

Black  limestone   50  400 

LOG  No.  23. 

ANDY  SMITH  No.  2. 
Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Limestone  274  274 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  46  320 

Blue  limestone 19  339 

Lime  sand  30  369 

Limestone   ...  6  375 


186       OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

LOG  No.  24. 

ANDY   SMITH  No.   3. 
Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Limestone   276  276 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black   shale   50  326 

Blue  limestone  23  349 

Blue  limestone  12  361 

Lime  sand  31  392 

Limestone  4  396 

LOG  No.  25. 

SCOTTSVILLE  OIL  POOL, 

OCALA  OIL  CO.  No.  4. 
Frost  Farm,  3  Miles  S.  of  Scottsville. 

Strata  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Unrecorded,  210. 
DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Top  of  black  shale  at         )  210 

Base  of  black  shale  at       \  devonian)  ^ 

First  oil  show  at 271 

Oil  282 

Bottom  of  well  at 278 

LOG  No.  26. 

OCALA  OIL  CO.  No.  5. 

Strata  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Unrecorded,  223. 
DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Top  of  black  shale  at        )  223 

Base  of  black  shale  at      \  devonian)  ^ 

First  pay  at 294 

Salt  water  at 308 

LOG  No.  27. 

OCALA  OIL  CO.  No.  6. 

Strata  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Unrecorded,  209. 
DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Top  of  black  shale  at        )  ,_         .     .  209 

Base  of  black  shale  at       \  <Devoman>  256 

Oil  and  water  at 283 

Oil  at  ...  .    298 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS  187 

LOG  No.  28.  RODEMER  POOL, 

KEEN  WELL  No.  7. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Lime  and  shale 120  120 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  43  163 

Blue   lime  11  174 

Brown  sand  (lime?)  3  177 

Light   lime    6  183 

Brown  sand  (lime?)  Pay  sand 9  192 

Hard  lime  2  194 

Light  blue  lime  9  203 

Dark  lime  2  205 

Gray  lime  1  206 

Dark  lime 6  212 

Blue  lime  10  222 

Light-blue  lime  3  225 

LOG  No.  29.  ROSA  HOLDER  FARM. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil  28  28 

White  lime  158  186 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  41  227 

Lime-Gas  show  at  245.    Water  at  320 98  325 

LOG  No.  30.  SETTLES  WELL  No.  3. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Casing   81  81 

Limestone  1 119  200 

Green   shale   3  203 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  45  248 

Dark  lime  (Oil  smell) 5  253 

Hard  lime  10  263 

Brown  oil-sand  (lime?)   Gas  13  276 

Oil  show  at 276 

Shaly  lime  14  290 

Dark  brown  sand  (lime?)  Oil  show  5  295 

Hard  blue  lime 6  301 

Sand  lime— Oil  show 7  308 

Hard  blue  and  shaly  lime  20  328 

Hard  sand  (?) 1  329 

Salt  water  ....                        5  334 


188 


OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 


LOG  No.  31. 

TRAMMEL  CREEK  POOL, 
WELL   ON   BIG   TRAMMEL   CREEK. 
Five  Miles  Southwest  of  Scottsville. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil    12  12 

Blue  limestone  90  102 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  13  115 

Black  rock— Oil  at  127 12  127 

Blue  Imestone  40  167 

White  sand  (lime?)  20  187 

Black  rock— Gas  at  193 6  193 

Soft  sand  rock  (lime?) 10  203 

Yellow  flnty  sand  Time?)   Salt  water 2  205 

"Trendon"  rock*  600  805 

Blue   limestone   200  1,005 

"Trenton"    (light)    85  1,090 

*"Trenton"  is  driller's  distinction. 

LOG  No.  32. 

PETROLEUM  POOL, 
WELL  AT  PETROLEUM. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil   10  10 

Blue  limestone  30  40 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  9  49 

Light  gray  sandstone  (lime?)  Oil  at  132....      83  132 

LOG  No.  33. 

ADOLPHUS  POOL, 
J.  H.  CARTER  FARM,  NORTHEAST  OF  ADOLPHUS. 


Strata 
DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Top  of  black  shale  )  at 

Base  of  black  shale  J  (Devonian)  at 

Sulphur  water  at 

Oil  sand  (lime?)  at 

Lime   : at 

Sand   (lime?)   at 

Blue  clay  at 

Sand   (lime  ?)   at 

Slate  at 

Lime  at 

Sand    ( ?)    at 


281 
823 


Depth 

152 
195 

196 
200 
221 
225 
253 
257 
271 
823 


RECORDS   OF  DRILLED  WELLS 


189 


LOG  No.  34. 

WIDOW  LANE  FARM,  NEAR  TENNESSEE  LINE. 


Strata 
MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil 

Lime  

Sand   

Blue  lime 

Slate   ... 


Thickness 


Slate  

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  55 

Gray  lime  30 

Oil-sand   (lime?)   10 

Blue  lime  20 

White  lime  3 

Well  was  dry. 


Depth 

5 

70 

90 
130 
135 
145 
150 


235 
245 
265 


LOG  No.  35. 

VARIOUS  LOCATIONS. 
GEORGE  JEWELL  WELL. 

Strata  Thickness 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil  and  limestone  193 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  

Blue   limestone   

Lime  sand  

Broken  limestone  

Lime  sand  


Depth 
193 

243 
250 
278 
292 
296 


LOG  No.  36. 

WOOD  JEWELL  WELL. 

Strata  Thickness 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil  and  limestone  188 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  

Blue  limestone  

Lime  sand  ...  .-. 


...       50 

2 

10 


Depth 
188 


240 
250 


190  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES   OF  KENTUCKY 

LOG  No.  37. 

T.  Y.  OLIVER  WELL  No.  1. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil  37  37 

Limestone  274  311 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale 43  354 

Lime  sand  65  419 

1st  sand  5ft. 
2nd  sand  10  ft. 
3rd  sand  14  ft. 

LOG  No.  38. 

B.  T.  WILLIAMS  WELL. 
Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil   30  30 

Limestone  272  302 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  48  350 

Lime  sand  98  448 

Slate  54  502 

LOG  No.  39. 

L.  W.  NICHOLS  WELL  No.  1. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil 13  13 

Lmestone  250  263 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  57  320 

Blue  limestone  5  325 

First  sand  5  330 

Blue  limestone  12  342' 

Second  sand 20  362 

Limestone  20  382 

LOG  No.  40. 

JOHNSON  FARM  No.  1. 

Near  Clifton  School. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil   7  i 

Gray  lime  68  75 

"Gas  sand"  5  80 

Lime  Ill  191 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS  191 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Shale   _  47  238 

Cap  rock  8  246 

"Oil   sand"   ...  2  248 


LOG  No.  41. 

SAM  WHEAT  FARM, 
West  of  Trammel  Creek. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil  8  8 

White  lime  40  48 

Blue  lime  2  60 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  45  95 

Cap  rock  5  100 

"Oil  sand"  12  112 

Blue  lime   48  160 

Broken  sand  (?)  15  175 

Blue   shale  25  200 

In  Allen  county  the  majority  of  the  wells  get  production  in  the 
Onondaga  or  Niagara  limestone  a  few  feet  below  the  Black  Shale  of 
the  Devonian  System. 

There  are,  however,  two  deeper  "pays"  and  chances  for  oil  are  not 
exhausted  unless  drilling  is  carried  to  a  depth  of  from  125  to  150  feet 
below  the  shale.  Deeper  drilling  than  that  should  be  discouraged. 


BARREN  COUNTY. 

LOG  No.  42. 

MARTHA  DOUGHERTY  FARM. 

Strata                                                          Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Gravel   9  9 

Lime  shells  10  19 

Sand   6  25 

Sandy  lime— Oil  show  at  45 20  45 

Lime  18  63 

White  lime  31  94 

Sandy  lime— Oil  show  at  106 12  106 

White  lime— Oil  show  at  112 6  112 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  34  146 

Sandy  lime  20  166 


192  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

SILURIAN  SYSTEM. 

Lime   shells   30'  196 

Lime  10  206 

Sandy  lime  10  216 

White  lime  12  228 

Dark  lime  22  250 

Blue  shale  3  253 

Sandy  lime  12  265 

Lime  shells  20  285 

Dark  sandy  shale— Heavy  gas  at  288 6  291 

White  sandy  shale  - 2  293 

Lime  and  shells  55  348 

Sandy  lime  12  360 

Lime   24  384 

Lime    shelly    60  444 

Light  slate  20  464 

Lime  shells  40  504 

"Flint"  and  lime  shells  25  529 

Lime  35  564 

Sandy  lime  40  604 

"Flint"  shells  20  624 

Lime  30  654 

Blue  lime 60  714 

Slate  and  lime  shells 45  759 

Lime  and  "flint"  shells  60  819 

Lime   shells   50  869 

Light  brown  lime  96  965 

White  "flint"  shells  55  1,020 

"Flint"  and  lime  shells  45  1,065 

Brown  "flint"  shells  20  1,085 

Lime  shells  40  1,125 

White  lime  60  1,185 

Dark  sandy  lime — Gas  pocket  at  1,190 12  1,197 

Lime  14  1,211 

LOG  No.  43.  GEO.  E.  BOLES  FARM. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil    8  8 

Lime  „ 12  20 

Sand   15  35 

Sandy  lime  20  55 

White  lime  18  73 

Light   lime    23  96 

Sandy  lime .'. 6  102 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  32  134 

Sandy  lime  ...  10  144 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS 


193 


SILURIAN  SYSTEM. 

Shelly  lime  35  179 

Lime  12  191 

Sandy  lime— Gas  to  263  92  283 

She'.ly  lime  40  323 

Blue  shale  92  416 

Lime  shells  75  490 

Sandy  lime  128  618 

"Flint"  and  sandy  lime  30  648 

Black  lime   53  701 

Lime  shells  and  slate 50  751 

Lime  and  flint  shells  60  811 

White  lime  20  831 

Green  lime  12  843 

Brown  "flint"  90  933 

White  shelly  "flint'  52  985 

Brown  "flint"  20  1,005 

Lime  shells  40  1,045 

White  lime  35  1,080 

Dark  lime  16  1,096 

LOG  No.  44. 

J.  E.  BUSH  FARM. 

Strata                                                          Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Gravel  10  10 

Dark  lime  45  65 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  _ 30  85 

Dark  sand  10  95 

SILURIAN  SYSTEM. 

Dark  lime  60  155 

Light  lime  56  211 

Dark    lime    154  365 

Lime  and  sandy  shells 43  408 

Blue  shale 104  512 

Dark  lime  12  624 

Shally  lime  46  570 

Sandy   lime    7  577 

Shelly  lime— Gas  at  578 83  660 

Sandy  lime  15  676 

Brown  "flint"  45  720 

Light  lime  and  shells  65  775 

Dark  lime  41  816 

Lime  shells  10  826 

Black  s'ate  „ 30  856 

Sandy  lime  40  896 

White  lime  179  1,076 

Oil  &  Gas— 7 


394       OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

LOG  No.  45. 

C    C.  McGUIRE  FARM. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Gravel   21                         21 

Hard  lime  12                         33 

White  sand  25                          58 

White  sandy  lime  24                         82 

White  lime  15                         97 

Dark  sandy  lime  4  101 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  34  135 

Dark  sandy  lime  35  170 

SILURIAN  SYSTEM. 

Dark  slate  20  190 

Light   lime    40  230 

Dark  lime  _ 60  290 

Light  sandy  lime  15  305 

Dark  lime  50  355 

Blue  shale  _..  85  440 

Light  lime  18  458 

Dark  shelly  lime  130  588 

Dark  sandy  shale  140  728 

Light  lime  12  740 

Dark  lime  ., 25  765 

Brown  lime  23  788 

Light  lime  10  798 

Brown  lime  and  "flint"  ....  60  858 


LOG  No.  46. 

B.  AND  K.  NUCKOLS  FARM. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Gravel  3  3 

Dark  lime  18  21 

Slate 8  29 

White  lime — gas  at  105 141  170 

Blue  slate — Oil  show  at  180 10  180 

Lime  shells  2  182 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  20  202 

Blue   lime    9  211 

Gray  lime— Oil  show  at  238 29  240 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS 


195 


SILURIAN  SYSTEM. 

Blue  lime  10  250 

Blue  shale  25  275 

Blue  lime— Oil  show  9  284 

Light  lime  8  292 

Dark  lime  200  492 

Lime  and  shale  248  740 

Dark  Ime  40  780 

Light  lime  75  855 

Blue  lime— Oil  show 80  935 

Sandy  lime  12  947 

Shells  and  slate 20  967 

White  lime— Gas  at  1,025 150  1,117 

Dark  lime  119  1,236 

Pink  lime  60  1,296 

LOG  No.  47. 

J.  M.  HAMMER  FARM. 

Strata                                                          Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Gravel   5  5 

Gray  lime  12  17 

Dark  shale  and  shells  3  20 

Dark  lime  10  30 

Dark  lime  and  shale  20  50 

Gray  lime — gas  at  80  30  80 

Light  lime— gas  at  90,  130  and  170 100  180 

Slate  and  shells  25  205 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  30  235 

Dark  lime— Oil  and  salt  water  at  240 50  285 

Light  slate  30  315 

Light  lime  200  515 

Shells  and  shale  150  665 

Dark  lime  165  830 

LOG  No.  48. 

W.  E.  PEDEN  FARM. 

Strata                                                          Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Gravel  13  13 

Gray  lime  50  63 

Blue  shale 10  73 

Lime  shell  2  75 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  25  100 

Dark  lime— Oil  show  at  125 35  135 


196 


OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES   OF  KENTUCKY 


SILURIAN  SYSTEM. 

Blue  slate  „  25  160 

Blue  lime— Oil  show  at  178 165  325 

Gray  lime  80  405 

Lime  and  slate— Gas  at  530  and  555 180  585 

Dark  lime— Gas  at  585  and  685 100  685 

Blue  lime 150  835 

White  lime  100  935 

White  slate 6  941 

Gray  lime  125  1,066 

Dark  lime  18  1,084 

Light  lime   100  1,184 

Dark  lime 466  1,650 

LOG  No.  49.  BEALS  FARM.— No.  1. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil    6  6 

Lime 159  165 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  24  189 

Lime  9  198 

"Oil  sand"  4  202 

LOG  No.  50.  BEALS  FARM.— No.  2. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil  6  6 

Lime  149  155 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black   shale  40  195 

Lme    6  201 

"Oil  sand"  5  206 

In  the  followng  groups  of  old  shallow  well  records  in  Barren 
county  the  divisions  marked  "Waverly,"  "Clinton,"  "Niagara"  and 
"Trenton"  are  distinctions  made  by  the  driller  and  are  obviously 
incorrect. 

LOG  No.  61.         BOYDS  CREEK  WELLS. 

Strata  Thickness 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Waverly  58 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale 18 

Top  of  1st  sand  at 

Gas  and  salt  water  at 

Top  of  2nd  sand  at 

Bottom  of  well  at 


Depth 

58 

76 

80 

87 
175 
209 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS 


197 


LOG  No.  52. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Waverly 55  55 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  35  90 

Gas   at   135 

Bottom  of  well  at  — 180 

LOG  No.  53. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPFIAN   SYSTEM. 

Waverly  58  58 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  27  85 

Oil  anl  gas  at  87 

LOG  No.  54. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Waverly  70  70 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale 25  95 

Oil  and  gas  at 90 

Oil  and  gas  at 135 

Bottom  of  well  at  265 

LOG  No.  55. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSEPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Waverly  55  55 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  15  70 

Oil  and  gas  at  70,  165  and  230 

Bottom  of  well  at  241 

LOG  No.  56. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Waverly  73  73 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  41  114 

Oil  at  116 

Bottom  of  well  at  ...  205 


198       OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

LOG  No.  57. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Waverly  : 58  58 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  32  90 

Oil  at  37 

Gas  and  oil  at 145 

Salt  water  at  156 

Bottom  of  well  at 201 


LOG  No.  58. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Waverly    112  112 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale 38  150 

Amber  oil  at 84 

Bottom  of  well  at  168 


LOG  No.  59. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Waverly   68  68 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  33  101 

Oil  at  225 

Bottom  of  well  at  ....  .  272 


LOG  No.  60. 

JACK  KINSLOW  FARM. 

WELL  No.  1. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Soil  8  8 

Waverly  49  57 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  44  101 

"Niagara"  24  125 

"Clinton"  ...  20  145 


RECORDS   OF  DRILLED  WELLS 


199 


LOG  No.  61. 

WELL  No.  2. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Soil   12  12 

St.   Louis   and  Waverly 103  115 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  42  157 

"Niagara"    23  180 

"Clinton"  oil  and  gas  at  183  20  200 

LOG  No.  62. 

WELL  No.  3. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Soil    8  8 

St.  Louis  87  95 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  46  141 

"Niagara" 19  160 

"Clinton'  oil  and  gas  at  165  20  180 

Bottom  of  well  at  195 

LOG  No.  63. 

WELL  No.  4. 

Strata  Thickness  Deptn 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Soil    28  28 

St.  Louis  106  134 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  45  179 

"Niagara"  23  203 

"Clinton"  oil  and  gas  at  205 20  223 

Bottom  of  well  at  223 

LOG  No.  64. 

WELL  No.  5. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Waverly  58  58 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  30  88 

"Niagara"    35  123 

"Clinton"  gas  and  oil  at  123 25  148 


200       OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

LOG  No.  65. 

WELL  No.  6. 
Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSJPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Waverly  140  140 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale 53          193 

"Niagara"  20          213 

"Clinton"  oil  and  gas  at  213  23  236 

Salt  water  at 260 

Bottom  of  well  at  341 

LOG  No.  66.  MILLS  FARM. 

WELL  No.  1. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Waverly  74  74 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black   shale   31  105 

"Trenton"  oil,  gas  and  water  15  120 

LOG  No   67. 

WELL  No.  2. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Waverly  74  74 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  35  109 

"Trenton"  oil,  gas  and  water 18  127 

LOG  No.  68.  ELLIS  FARM. 

WELL  No.  1. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Waverly  46  46 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  sha^e   29  75 

Oil  at  127 

LOG  No.  69. 

WELL  No.  2. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Waverly  42  42 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  50  92 

Oil  and  gas  at .    160 


RECORDS   OF  DRILLED  WELLS 


201 


LOG  No.  70. 

SOUTHERN  KENTUCKY  OIL  CO.  WELLS. 

Strata                                                             Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Soil   >..        8  8 

Waverly    67  75 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  30  105 

"Niagara"  oil  36  141 

"Clinton"  gas  at  150 20  161 

LOG  No.  71. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Waverly  187  187 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  33  220 

"Niagara"  20  240 

"Clinton"  20  260 

Oil  and  gas  at  240 

Salt  water  at  254 

LOG  No.  72. 

Strata                                                          Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Waverly  148  148 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale 32  180 

"Niagara"  46  226 

"Clinton"  20  246 

Oil  and  gas  at  226 

Salt  water  at  230 

LOG  No.  73. 

Strata                                                          Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Waverly    130  130 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale 36  166 

"Niagara"    36  202 

"Clinton"  29  231 

Oil  at  202 

Water  at  205 

Oil  and  water  at  ....  .     212 


202       OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

LOG  No.  74. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Waverly  198  198 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  32  230 

"Niagara"  19  249 

"Clinton"  29  278 

Oil  and  gas  at 249 

LOG  No.  75. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Waverly  150  150 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  30  180 

"Niagara"   37  217 

"Clinton"  20  237 

Gas  at  — 180 

Oil  at  -. 217 

LOG  No  76.  OLD  CARROLL  WELLS. 

Well  No.  1— Gas  at  819.    Bottom  at  875. 

LOG  No.  77. 

Well  No.  2— Oil  at  355.     Bottom  at  355. 

LOG  No.  78. 

Well  No.  3— Oil  at  100,  gas  at  715  and  1135.    Bottom  at  1135. 

LOG  No.  79. 

Well  No.  4— Gas  at  750.    Bottom  at  750. 

LOG  No.  80. 

Well  No.  5— Oil  at  110,  gas  at  1166.     Bottom  at  1166. 

LOG  No.  81.      OLD  HAVEN— CHASE  WELLS. 

North  well  Top  of  black  shale  at  230.  Oil  at  307 

LOG  No.  82. 

West  well  Top  of  black  shale  at  225.  Oil  at  120 

LOG  No.  83. 

South  well  Top  of  black  shale  at  228.  Oil  at  120 

LOG  No.  84. 

East  well Top  of  black  shale  at  225.  Oil  at  310 

LOG  No.  85. 

Southeast  well  Top  of  black  shale  at  185.  Oil  at  310 

LOG  No.  86. 

Southwest  well  Top  of  black  shale  at  225.    Gas  at  130 


RECORDS   OF  DRILLED  WELLS  203 

In  Barren  county  the  principal  producing  "sand"  is  either  the 
Onondaga  or  Niagara  limestone  found  below  the  Devonian  Black  Shale. 
There  are,  however,  in  some  parts  of  the  county  "stray"  sands  in  the 
Waverly  limestone  above  the  black  shale  which  produce  a  very  light, 
high  gravity,  amber  crude.  In  the  above  Barren  county  wells  the 
designations  of  "Waverly,"  "Niagaran,"  "Clinton,"  etc.,  are  driller's 
terms  and  may  or  may  not  be  correct 


BATH  COUNTY. 

LOG  No.  87. 

EWING  HEIRS  No.  23. 
1  mile  below  head  of  Clear  Creek. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Waverly  shales  and  sandstones 430  430 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  and  blue  shale  202  632 

"Ragland"  sand  48  680 

SILURIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soft  blue  shale 22  702 

Blue  and  red  shales  151  853 

Limestone 14  867 

Light  blue  shale  13  880 

Light  blue  and  pink  shales 6  886 

ORDOVICIAN  SYSTEM. 

Limestone  27  913 

Blue  shale  37  950 

Limestone  735  1685 

Gray,  crystalline  limestone  215  1900 

Green  shale  at  1900  (Top  of  Tyrone  Ls.) 

Light  dove-colored  limestone  110  2010 

White  magnesian  limestone  20  2030 

Dark  dove-colored  limestone 470  2500 

Dark  and  light  gray  limestones 8  2508 

Dark  gray  limestone  and  shale 8  2516 

Calcareous  shale  and  sandy  limestone 6  2522 

Light  dove-colored  limestone  6  2528 

Dark  dove-colored  limestone  18  2546 

Light  gray  sandy  limestone  .... )  12  2558 

White  sandy  limestone }  Calciferous  ^  2599 

Small  flow  mineral  water  at  2440—2446. 

Heavy  flow  mineral  water  at  2578. 
(Well  starts  near  top  of  Waverly  and  goes  down  into  Calciferous ) 


204  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

LOG  No.  88. 

RAGLAND  FARM— 19  RECORDS. 
Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Gravel    20  20 

Blue  shale  160  180 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  206  386 

White  shale  7  393 

Brown  shale  13  406 

Lime — Ragland  sand — oil  19  425 

LOG  No.  89. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Gravel    34  34 

Blue  shale  61  95 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale 205  300 

White  shale  6  306 

Brown   shale   14  320 

Lime — Ragland  sand  24  344 

LOG  No.  90. 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

Gravel 37                          37 

Blue  shale 60                         97 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  205  302 

White  shale 6  308 

Brown  shale  14  322 

Lime — Ragland  sand  24  366 


LOG  No.  91. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Lime  40  40 

Blue  shale  (Waverly)  503  543 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black   shale   205  748 

White  shale  8  756 

Brown  shale  12  768 

Lime — Ragland  oand  ...  18  786 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS 


205 


LOG  No.  92. 

Strata                                                          Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Gravel    15  15 

Blue  shale  (Waverly)  533  548 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale 205  753 

White  shale  8  761 

Brown  shale  12  773 

Lime — Ragland  sand  18  791 

LOG  No.  93. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Lime 40  40 

Blue  shale  (Waverly)  607  647 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale    ]                              205  852 

White  shale    I  (Devonian)         8  860 

Brown  shale  J                              ...„ 12  872 

Lime— Ragland    sand    15  887 

LOG  No.  94. 

Strata                                                          Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Gravel 18  18 

Blue   shale   173  191 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale    "]                               205  396 

White    shale    I   (Devonian)        8  404 

Brown  shale    I                               12  416 

Lime — Ragland    sand    10  426 

LOG  No.  95. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Lime    40  40 

Blue   shale    (Waverly)    503  543 

DEVONIAN   SYSTEM. 

Black  shale     } 205  748 

White    shale    I   (Devonian)        8  756 

Brown  shale   (                              12  768 

Lime— Ragland    sand   25  793 


OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 


LOG  No.  96. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Gravel    20                          20 

Blue   sha.e   141  161 

DEVONIAN   SYSTEM. 

Black  shale    "1                               205  366 

White    shale    I   (Devonian)        8  374 

Brown  shale  (J                              12  386 

Lime— Ragland    sand    19  405 

LOG  No.  97. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Gravel    20                          20 

Blue  shale  61                          81 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale    1                              12  306 

White    shale    I   (Devonian)        8  294 

Black  shale     I                               205  286 

(Ragland  sand  missing) 

Blue  shale   (Niagaran)  178  484 

Second    sand    10  494 

LOG   No.   98. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Gravel    22                          22 

Blue  shale  136  158 

DEVONIAN   SYSTEM. 

B  ack  shale    1                                205  363 

White   sha'.e    I   (Devonian)        6  369 

Brown  shale    I                                9  378 

Lime — Ragland    sand    20  398 

LOG  No.  99. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Gravel    17                          17 

Blue    shale    542  559 

DEVONIAN   SYSTEM. 

Black  shale     "1                                205  764 

White    shale    I  (Devonian)        8  772 

Brown  shale  j                               12  784 

Lime — Ragland    sand    20  804 


RECORDS   OF  DRILLED  WELLS 


207 


LOG  No.  100. 

Strata  Thickness 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Gravel    35 

Blue    shale   65 

DEVONIAN   SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  1                               100 

Brown  shale  I  (Devonian — thinned    down)  8 

Brown  sha'.ej                                14 

Lime — Ragland    sand    30 

Red  shale   (Niagaran)    206 

Lime — second   sand  22 

Shale    2 

LOG  No.  101. 

Strata  Thickness 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Gravel    20 

Blue    shale 167 

DEVONIAN   SYSTEM. 

Black  sha'.e    ")  205 

White    shale   j»   (Devonian)        8 

Brown  sha'e   J                               12 

Lime — Ragland    sand    14 

LOG  No.  102. 

Strata  Thickness 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Lime    50 

Blue   shale    (Waverly)    449 

DEVONIAN   SYSTEM. 

Black  shale    ^                               205 

White    shale    L  (Devonian)        8 

Brown  shale    )                              12 

Lime — Ragland    sand    17 

LOG  No.  103. 

Strata  Thickness 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Gravel    20 

Blue   sha'e   97 

DEVONIAN   SYSTEM. 

Black  shale    ^                              205  ' 

White    shale   I   (Devonian)        8 

Brown  shale    )                          12 

Lime — Ragland    sand    15 


Depth 

35 

100 


252 
458 
480 


Depth 

20 
187 

392 
400 

412 
426 


Depth 

50 
499 

704 
712 
724 
741 


Depth 

20 
117 

322 
330 
342 
357 


208       OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

LOG  No.  104. 

Strata                                                          Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Lime    20  20 

Blue  shale    (Waverly)    522  542 

DEVONIAN   SYSTEM. 

Black  shale    ~]                              205  747 

White   shale    I   (Devonian)        8  755 

Brown  shale  J                              12  767 

Liine— Ragland    sand    20  787 

LOG  No.  105. 

Strata                                                          Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Gravel    20  20 

Blue   shale   20  40 

DEVONIAN   SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  (Devonian) 224  264 

White  shale  4  268 

Lime — Ragland  Sand  32  300 

Shale  4  304 

Stray   sand— Oil   18  322 

Shale    3  325 

LOG  No.  106. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Gravel    34  34 

Blue   shale   61  95 

DEVONIAN   SYSTEM. 

Black  shale    1                               200  295 

White    shale   I   (Devonian)        8  303 

Brown  shale  J                              12  315 

Lime — Ragland    sand 27  342 

LOG  No.  107. 

EWING  FARM.— 8  RECORDS. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Lime    50  50 

White  slate   (Waverly)    561  611 

DEVONIAN   SYSTEM. 

Black  shale    ^                              205  816 

White    shale   I  (Devonian)        8  824 

Brown  shale   J                              15  839 

Lime — Ragland    sand    31  870 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS 


209 


LOG  No.  108. 

Strata                                                          Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Gravel    56  56 

Blue  shale  (Waverly) 607  663 

DEVONIAN   SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  205  868 

White  shale  8  876 

Brown  shale  12  888 

Lime — Ragland    sand    30  918 

Red  shale   (Niagaran)   245  1163 

Lime — second  sand  15  1178 

Shale    15  1193 

LOG  No.  109. 

Strata                                                             Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Gravel    20  20 

Blue   shale   391  411 

DEVONIAN   SYSTEM. 

Brown  shale  "]                              205  616 

White    shale    I   (Devonian)        8  624 

Black  shale    j                             12  636 

Lime — Ragland    sand 24  660 

LOG  No.  110. 

Strata                                                          Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Blue  shale  (Waverly)  590  590 

DEVONIAN   SYSTEM. 

Black  shale    -|                              206  796 

White   shale   I   (Devonian)        5  801 

Brown  shale   J                              15  816 

Lime— Ragland    sand    25  841 

LOG  No.  111. 

Strata                                                          Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Lime    50  50 

Blue   shale   555  605 

DEVONIAN   SYSTEM. 

Black   shale   205  810 

White  shale  5  815 

Brown    shale   15  830 

Lime — Ragland    sand    25  855 


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LOG  No.  112. 

Strata                                                            Thicki  ess  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Gravel    40  40 

Blue  shale    (Waverly)    662  702 

DEVONIAN   SYSTEM. 

Black  shale    ~\                              206  908 

White   shale    L  (Devonian)        6  914 

Brown  sha'.e  j                              14  928 

Lime — Ragland    sand    25  953 

LOG  No.  113. 

Strata                                                          Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Gravel    20  20 

Blue  shale    (Waverly)    527  547 

DEVONIAN   SYSTEM. 

Black  shale    ]                               205  752 

White    shale    L   (Devonian)        8  760 

Brown  shale    |                               12  772 

Lime— Ragland  sand  22  794 

LOG  No.  114. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Lime    50  50 

Blue   shale    565  615 

DEVONIAN   SYSTEM. 

Black  shale"!                                  205  820 

White    shall      (Devonian)        8  828 

Brown  shal*  j                                 12  840 

Lime — Ragland    sand    33  873 

LOG  No.  115. 

WOOLEY  FARM.— 19  RECORDS. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Gravel    20  20 

Blue   shale   250  270 

DEVONIAN   SYSTEM. 

Black  shale    1                               205  475 

White   shale   I   (Devonian)        8  483 

Brown  shale  J                              12  495 

"Ragland"   sand   30  525 

Blue  shale  (Niagaran)   179  704 

"Second"    sand   ..  20  724 


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LOG  No.  116. 

Strata                                                          Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Sand  and  gravel  15  15 

DEVONIAN   SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  145  160 

"Ragland"    sand    28  188 

Red   shale   (Niagaran)    157  345 

"Second"    sand    10  355 

Blue   shale   25  380 

Hard,   red   sand    8  388 

Soft    lime    16  404 

Dark  lime  96  500 

LOG  No.  117. 

Strata                                                             Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Gravel    2  2 

Sand    155  157 

DEVONIAN   SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  (Devonian)  113  270 

"Ragland"   sand    24  294 

Light   shale    (Niagaran)    220  514 

"Second"    sand    83  597 

Slate    18  615 

LOO  No.  118. 

Strata                                                             Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Gravel    6  6 

White    sha'e    264  270 

Brown    shale 20  290 

White  shale  20  310 

DEVONIAN   SYSTEM. 

Brown  shale  (Devonian)  162  472 

White    shale    12  484 

Brown    shale    6  490 

Lime— Ragland    sand    19  509 

LOG  No.  119. 

Strata                                                             Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Gravel    18  18 

White    shale    280  298 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale    -j                                            190 

White    sha'.e   L    (Devonian)        10  498 

Black  shale   J  15  613 

Lime— Ragland    sand    22  535 


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LOG  No.  120. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Gravel    10                         10 

White    shale    298  308 

DEVONIAN   SYSTEM. 

Black  shale      "1                               207  515 

Brown    shale    I  (Devonian)        10  525 

White  shale     J                             5  530 

Lime — Ragland    sand    19  5-19 

LOG  No.  121. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

White  lime  50                         50 

Blue  shale  (Waverly)  508  558 

DEVONIAN   SYSTEM. 

Black  shale    "1                               13  783 

White    shale    I   (Devonian)        6  770 

Brown  shale                                  206  761 

Lime — Ragland    sand    22  805 


LOG  No.  122. 
Strata 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 
Blue   shale   ... 


DEVONIAN   SYSTEM. 
Black  sha'e     ~\ 
White    sha  e    I   (Devonian) 
Brown  shale 


Lime — Ragland    sand 


Thickness 
..     557 

..     206 
6 

..       14 
24 


Depth 
557 

763 
769 

783 
807 


LOG  No.  123. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 
MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Blue    shale    284  284 

DEVONIAN   SYSTEM. 

Black  shale    "i                                205  489 

White    sha'e    (   (Devonian)        6  495 

Brown  shale  j                              13  508 

Lime — Ragland    sand    22  530 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS 


213 


LOG  No.  124. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Blue   shale   298  298 

DEVONIAN   SYSTEM. 

Black  shale    "1                               207  505 

White    shale    I    (Devonian)        7  512 

Brown  sha'e                                  14  526 

Lime — Ragland    sand    20  546 

LOG  No.  125. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Blue   shale   550  550 

DEVONIAN   SYSTEM. 

Black  shale    "1                               207  757 

White    sha'e    I   (Devonian)        6  763 

Brown  shale    I                               14  777 

Lime — Ragland    sand    26  803 

LOG  No.  126. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Blue   shale   307  307 

DEVONIAN   SYSTEM. 

Black  shale    "1                               207  514 

White    shale    I    (Devonian)        6  520 

Brown  sha'e    j                               14  534 

Lime — Ragland    sand    15  549 


LOG  No.  127. 

Strata 
MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Gravel    

Lime    

Blue  shale    (Waverly) 
DEVONIAN   SYSTEM. 

B'ack  shale 

White    shale    J.   (Devonian) 

Brown  shale 


Thickness 

..  10 
.  40 
..  492 

..     205 

8 

12 


Lime — Ragland  sand  22 


Depth 

10 

50 

542 

747 
755 
767 
789 


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LOG  No.  128. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Lime    50                          50 

Blue  shale    (Waverly)   488  538 

DEVONIAN   SYSTEM. 

Black  shale    "I                                205  743 

White    shale    L  (Devonian)        8  751 

Brown  shale    1                                12  763 

Lime— Ragland    sand    21  784 

LOG  No.  129. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Lime    80    ,                      80 

Blue  shale  (Waver  y)  533  613 

DEVONIAN   SYSTEM. 

Black  shale    "i                               205  818 

White   shale    }>   (Devonian)        8  826 

Brown  shale  J                               12  838 

Lime — Ragland    sand    20  858 

LOG  No.  130. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Gravel    20                          20 

Lime    ..._ 40                          60 

Blue    shale    (Waveriy)    515  575 

DEVONIAN   SYSTEM. 

Black  shale    ")                               205  780 

White    shale    }>   (Devonian)        8  788 

Brown  sha'e  J                               12  800 

Lime — Ragland    sand    26  826 


LOG  No.  131. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Lime    _ 40  40 

Blue  shale    (Waverly)    511  551 

DEVONIAN   SYSTEM. 

Black   shale  ^                                205  756 

White    shale   j,    (Devonian)        8  764 

Brown  shale  J                                12  776 

Lime— Ragland    sand    21  797 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS 


215 


LOG  No.  132. 
Strata 
MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Gravel  and  blue  shale 
DEVONIAN   SYSTEM. 

Black  sha'.e 

White    shale    J,  (Devonian) 

Brown  shale 


Lime 


Thickness 


226 


205 


12 


-Ragland    sand    18 


Depth 
226 

431 
439 
451 
469 


LOG  No.  133. 
Strata 
MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Gravel    

Brown    shale 

White    shale    .. 


Thickness 


DEVONIAN   SYSTEM. 

Brown   shale   140 

White  shale  20 

Brown    shale    5 

White    shale    9 

Lime — Ragland    sand    6 

Blue   sha'.e   10 

Soft   lime    12 

Red    shale 155 

Hard    lime    12 

Blue   shale    10 

"Second"   sand   14 

Blue   shale   ...                           3 


Depth 

6 

11 
31 

171 
191 
196 
205 
211 
221 
233 
388 
400 
410 
424 
427 


LOG  No.  134. 

McKINNEY  FARM. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Clay,   sand   and  'gravel    20  20 

White  shale  120  140 

Brown    shale   16  156 

White    shale    20  176 

DEVONIAN   SYSTEM. 

Brown  shale  176  352 

Lime— Ragland   sand   15  367 

In  Bath  county  the  producing   (Ragland)  sand  is  the  Onondaga 
(Corniferous)  limestone  directly  beneath  the  Devonian  Black  Shale. 


216  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES   OF  KENTUCKY 

BELL  COUNTY. 

LOG  No.  135.  4 

WELL  NEAR  CHENOA. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN   SYSTEM 

Clay    „ 27  27 

Slate    45  72 

Brown  sand  _ 5  77 

Coal    4  81 

Slate 10  91 

Water   sand   '. 36  127 

Slate    _ - 5  132 

White   sand   _ 37  169 

Slate    76  245 

Coal    4  249 

Slate  and  shale  60  309 

Coal    2  311 

Slate    20  331 

Coal    2  333 

Slate    40  373 

Water   sand   10  383 

Slate    28  411 

Coal    4  415 

Fire-clay    2  417 

Slate    37  454 

Sand   - 30  484 

Slate    _ 8  492 

Black  sand  9  501 

Slate  and   shale  90  591 

Black    sand    22  613 

Sate 35  648 

Black  sand  5  653 

Slate    5  658 

White   sand   11  669 

Slate 3  672 

White   sand   11  683 

Slate    30  713 

Gray    sand    20  733 

White   sand   45  778 

Slate    15  793 

Black    sand    10  803 

Slate    35  838 

B'ack    sand    2  840 

Slate 35  875 

Black  sand 10  885 

Slate    15  900 

White   sand   ..  50  950 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS  217 

Slate    38  988 

White    sand    256  1244 

Slate    4  1248 

White    sand    84  1332 

Coal    4  1336 

White    sand    176  1512 

Slate    5  1517 

White    sand   Ill  1628 

Slate    5  1633 

White    sand   74  1707 

Coal    2  1709 

White   sand   72  1781 

Coal    6  1787 

White    sand   30  1817 

Total  depth  1817 

This  well  is  entire" y  in  the  Pennsylvanian  which  in  Bell  county 
is  very  thick.  Deeper  sands  productive  elsewhere  may  be  expected 
to  be  barren  in  Bel!  county  as  this  region  is  both  faulted  and  syn- 
clinal. 

B,OYD  COUNTY. 

LOG  No.  136. 

BIG  SANDY  OIL  AND  GAS  CO.  WELL, 
Catletts  Creek,  1^  Miles  from  Catlettsburg. 

Strata                                                             Thickness  Depth 
PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Clay   and   sand   36  36 

Sandstone    104  140 

Clay   shale    100  240 

Gray    sand    30  270 

Shale    150  420 

Sand   (base  of  Pottsville) 150  570 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Limestone — "Big  Lime"  280  850 

Black    sand    100  950 

White   sand — Salt  water  15  965 

Back    sand    35  1000 

Black  shale— Oil  show  329  1329 

Sand— Oil    51  1380 

Black  slate  (Sunbury  shale)   45  1425 

Brown  sand  (Berea?)  15  1440 

Shale  and   sand   5  1445 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Bfeck  slate  130  1575 

White   slate  ...                                                    40  1615 


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SILURIAN  SYSTEM. 

Slate  and  shale  180  1795 

S'ate  and  shells  50  1845 

Sand— Gas    5  1850 

Black  slate  10  1860 

Black    sand    15  1875 

Black  sand  and  slate  3  1878 

Blue    slate    12  1890 

Brown    s'ate    7  1897 

Black    slate    68  1965 

Black   sand— Gas   9  1974 

Black   shale   52  2126 

LOG  No.  137. 

RICHARDSON  WELL, 
One  Mi  e  South  of  Catlettsburg. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil    10  10 

Sand 50  60 

Coal    3  63 

Sand  and  slate  167  230 

Coal    5  235 

Slate    270  505 

Sand— Salt  water  and  gas 205  710 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Limestone — "Big   lime"   270  980 

Sand    70  1050 

Slate    15  1065 

Slate  and  shells  373  1438 

Black  slate  (Sunbury  shale)   20  1458 

Berea  sand — oil  45  1503 

Slate    „ 15  1518 

Dark   sand    10  1528 

DEVONIAN   SYSTEiM. 

Black  slate  40  1568 

Gray    sand 15  1583 

SILURIAN  SYSTEM. 

Slate  and  shells  447  2030 

Black  sand  (lime?)  Gas  40  2070 

Light  slate  192  2262 

Brown  lime   60  2322 

The  40  foot  black  "sand"  at  2030  to  2070  is  probably  the  Niagara 

"pay"  Limestone  but  the  section  is  evidently  quite  different  from  that 
found  in  the  more  typical  occurrences  in  Estill,  Lee  and  Wolfe  counties 
to  the  West. 


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219 


LOG  No.  138. 


BELLEFONTE  No.  1  GAS  WELL. 

Thickness 


Strata 
PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil    9 

Lime    15 

Blue   shale   126 

Slate   and    shells    125 

Blue   shale   50 

Shell   2 

Lime    23 

Slate    15 

Salt   sand   115 

Slate— Cased  at  482   30 

Water  sand  (base  of  Pottsville)  20 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

White  lime— "Big  lime"  40 

Slate 30 

"Big  Injun"  (?)  sand  20 

Lime  and  slate  15 

Slate    70 

Sand    -v 10 

Slate— Cased    at    730    475 

Brown  shale  (Sunbury  shale)   18 

"Berea"  sand* — Show  of  oil  and  gas 112 

Red   rock   20 

S:ate    20 

DEVONIAN   SYSTEM. 

Brown  shale  "j                               130 

White  slate 35 

Brown  shale                                   265 

White    slate     .  (Devonian)        80 

Brown  shale                                  110 

Limy  slate                                      35 

Brown  shale  J                              10 

Dark    lime    225 

Light  lime   125 

Slate    and    shells   40 

Hard   white  lime       35 

*0nly  the  upper  part  of  this  is  Berea 


Depth 

9 

24 
150 
275 
325 
327 
350 
365 
480 
510 
530 


570 

600 

620 

635 

705 

715 

1190 

1208 

1320 

1340 

1360 


1490 
1525 
1790 
1870 
1980 
2015 
2025 
2250 
2375 
2415 
2450 


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LOG  No.  139. 

GAS  WELL  AT  BELLEFONTE  BRICK  PLANT. 

Hoods  Creek. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil    20  20 

Gravel  and   quicksand  44  64 

Lime 11  75 

Blue  sha'.e— Cased  at  134  85  160 

Hard    lime    50  210 

Blue    shale    170  380 

Water   sand   20  400 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

White  slate — Cased  at  412 40  440 

Hard  lime — "Big  lime"   60  500 

S'ate  and  lime   shell 100  600 

"Big    Injun"    (?)    sand    50  650 

Blue    slate— Cased    at    725 75  725 

"Berea"   (?)    (Waveny)   450  1175 

Slate   (Sunbury?)  5  1180 

Lime    (?)    60  1240 

DEVONIAN   SYSTEM. 

Brown  shale  470  1710 

LOG  No.  140.  ROBERT  PRICHARD  FARM, 

Burrough  near  Kavanaugh. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Blue  shale   38  38 

Gravel    5  43 

Blue   shale   20  63 

Slate    25  88 

Sand    20  108 

Slate    10  118 

Sand    50  168 

Slate  and  shells  174  342 

Coal    3  345 

Slate    27  372 

Sand  and  lime  68  440 

Sand    45  485 

Slate    35  520 

Sand    55  575 

Slate    5  580 

Brown  slate  and  shells  165  745 

Sand    20  765 

Black  slate,  slate  and  shells  79  844 

Sand    104  948 

Slate    30  978 

Sand    90  1068 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS  221 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  slate  and   lime   112  1180 

"Big   lime"   58  1238 

Sand  and  slate  187  1425 

Dark   slate   . 440  1865 

Black  slate    (Sunbury)    20  1885 

Berea    sand    40  1925 

Slate  and  shells  40  1965 

DEVONIAN   SYSTEM. 

Dark  slate  482  2447 

Dark  slate  and  black  lime  161  2608 

White   slate   128  2736 

Brown    slate    49  2785 

Lime  95  2880 

LOG  No.  141. 

CLINTON  WELL, 

Shopes  Creek. 

Strata                                                              Thickness  Depth. 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil    15  15 

Gray    sand    10  25 

Blue   shale    10  35 

Coal    4  39 

Slate    31  70 

Coal    4  74 

Slate    14  88 

Sand    26  114 

White  shale  56  170 

Black  slate  8.  in.  casing  65  235 

White    shale 50  285 

Coal    3  288 

Blue  shale   14  302 

Black    slate    113  415 

Sand— Salt  water  55  470 

Slate    20  490 

Sand— Salt    water    50  640 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Limestone    ("Big   lime") 90  630 

Slate    4  634 

Sand— Salt  water  at   705 131  765 

Slate— Cased  at  765  40  805 

Sand  and  slate  411  1216 

Black  shale  (Sunbury  shale)  14  1230 

Sand  (Berea?)— Oil  smell  22  1252 

Slate— Oil  smell  10  1262 

Sand— Oil  smell   ...                      44  1306 


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DEVONIAN   SYSTEM. 
Black  and  white  slates  "^            

421                      1737 

Sand                                    I  (Devonian^ 
Black  and  white  slates  j 

10                      1747 
283                       2030 

S  ate    and    sand  —  Gas 

20                       2050 

Brown   limestone    (Ragland?)    

LOG  No.  142. 
WELL  AT  SUMMIT 
Strata 
PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 
Sand  and  shales  (Pottsville) 

50                      2100 

STATION. 
Thickness              Depth 

675                       675 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 
"Big    lime" 

60                        736 

Sand  and   shales    (Waverly)    

.  .  .     590                      1325 

Black  shale    (Sunbury)   

20                      1345 

Sand  —  Gas   (Berea)  

13                      1358 

Dark  shale 

K7                             1  41  Z 

Well  started  52  feet  above  No.  6  coal  and  stopped  just  above  the 
Devonian. 

LOG  No.  143. 
LONGABAUGH  WELL. 
Four  Miles  South  of  Ashland. 
Strata                                                            Thickness              Depth 
PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 
Clay    .                               •                                      14                         14 

Slate 

10                          24 

White   sand   

...      .       38                          62 

Slate    

28                          90 

Sand    

.       48                        138 

Slate    

38                        176 

Sand    

20                        196 

Black    slate 

110                        306 

Sand  —  Salt    water 

83                        389 

Slate    .... 

15                        404 

Sand    

20                          424 

Slate 

15                        439 

Sand  —  Salt    water 

61                         500 
Kft                             KKrt 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 
"Big    lime" 

Shales  and  sand—  Sa't  water  at  698  .    532                     1082 

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223 


BOYLE  COUNTY. 

LOG  No.  144. 

J.   C.   B.   NOBLE   FARM, 
2  1-2  Miles   S.  W.  of  Junction  City. 
Strata  Thickness 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Gravel    18 

Light    shale    19 

DEVONIAN   SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  59 

Lime    19 

Light  shale 

LOG  No.  145. 

J.  R.  AVERY  FARM, 
2  1-2  Miles  S.  W.  of  Junction  City. 
Strata  Thickness 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Light    shale    65 

DEVONIAN   SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  70 

Lime    19 

Light    shale 

BREATHITT  COUNTY. 

LOG  No.  146. 

OLD  WELL,  ON  FROZEN  CREEK. 
Strata  Thickness 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Cay    12 

White   sand    53 

Bastard  lime  (?) — Oil  show  2 

White    sand    73 

LOG  No.  147. 

J.   H.   WINTERBOTHAM   FARM, 

Little  Frozen  Creek. 

Strata  Thickness 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil    ~ 11 

Sand    90 

S'ate    50 

Sand    274 

Slate    30 

gand    ..  30 


Depth 

18 
37 


96 
115 


Depth 
65 

135 
154 


Depth 

12 

65 

67 

140 


Depth 

11 
101 
151 
425 
455 
4S5 


224                 OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Lime  "Big  lime"  175  660 

Sand    50  710 

Shale    (Waverly)    400  1110 

Brown  shale  (Sunbury?)  10  1120 

Sand    (Berea?)    35  1155 

DEVONIAN   SYSTEM. 

Brown  shale  218  1373 

Sand    (?)— Gas    3  1376 

Lime    11  1387 

Brown   lime — Oil   11  1398 

Sand    (?)    ..  6  1404 


LOG  No.  148. 

ELKATWA  WELL  ON  CANEY  CREEK. 
R.  A.  Chiles,  Lessee. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 
PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil    1                          20 

Pottsville    565                        585 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Shale    55                       640 

Little   Lime   13                       653 

Shale    2                       635 

Big   Lime   145                       800 

Big  Injun   90                        890 

Red  Rock  Slate  385                     1275 

Berea    25                     1300 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Brown   shale    360                     1560 

White   slate   ;...  7                     1567 

Cap  Rock   25                      1592 

Sand   (Small  oil  flow)   1                     1593 

Sand  (Small  salt  water  flow)  3                     1596 

Hard   dry   sand 

(This  record  incomplete). 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS  22 

LOG  No.  149. 

WELL  ON  BIG  BRANCH, 

Near  Haddlx. 

Strata                                                          Thickness  Depth 

Surface    8  8 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Sand   Rock  12  20 

Slate    2  22 

Coal    3  25 

Blue  mud   5  30 

Sand  Rock  18  45 

Water  sand— lots  of  water 5  50 

Sand    Rock    7  57 

Black   shale   13  70 

Blue    mud    40  110 

Blue    Grit   55  165 

Black   shale   60  225 

Sand   Rock  25  250 

Blue   shale   10  260 

Fire  clay  8  268 

Sand    rock    12  280 

Blue  mud   45  325 

Sand   Rock 15  340 

Black  mud   50  390 

Sand  rock  hard  181  571 

Black    slate    37  608 

Sand    rock    50  658 

Black    slate    87  745 

Sand  rock  2  ft.  coal  185  930 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Red    rock    5  935 

White   slate   5  940 

White    Grit-water    110    ft 170  1110 

Slate-^in    30  1140 

Lime    , 20  1160 

Slate   8  1168 

Lime— Gas  178  ft.  in  "Big" 222  1390 

Black  hard  20  1410 

Lime   shell 10  1420 

Shale    5  1425 

Red    rock    40  1465 

Brown   shale   30  1495 

Blue    slate    „ 55  -  1550 

Lime   shell   25  1575 

Slate  (Full  of  shell)  184  1759 

Oil  &  Gas— 8 


226  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Brown   shale   _ 253  2012 

Blue    mud    2  2014 

Brown   shale   42  2056 

Fire  clay  12  2068 

Cap  and  sand  into  Red  Rock  212  2280 

Total  depth 2280 


LOG  No.  150. 

GREEN  LAWSON  No.  1. 

On  Mill  Creek  which  runs  into  North  Fork  of  Kentucky  above  War 
Creek.    Elevation  720.    Drilled  in  about  September  18,  1918. 
Strata  Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

To  top  of  big  lime _ 421 

MISSISSIPPIAN  AND  DEVONIAN  SYSTEMS. 

To  top  of  sand 1273 

First  chaige   10  1283 

Second   change  2  1285 

Third  change  3  1288 

Fourth  change  5  1293 

Fifth  change 5  1298 

At  _ 10  1308 

No  oil  or  salt  water. 
Slight  show  of  oil  in  Berea. 
A  little  gas  from  Corniferous. 

Record  supplied  by  Bumgardner,  of  Filmore.    W.  P.  Williams  Oil  Co., 
Operators.    E.  M.  Henshaw,  Contractor. 


LOG  No.  151. 

Watkins  No.  1.    Little  Frozen.  Elevation  920  feet. 

W.  P.  Williams  Oil  Co.,  Operator.        Henshaw  &  Drake,  Contractors. 
Strata  Thickness  Depth 

To  Little  Lime  '  573  573 

To  Big  Lime  10  583 

To  bottom  of  lime 187  770 

To  white  slate  0  770  oil  and  gas 

To  top  sand 695  1465 

To  first  pay  26  1491  oil 

To  second   pay  5  1496  oil  best 

To  stopped  9  1505 

Flowed  four  to  six  times  daily  before  pump  was  installed.  Information 
given  by  Henshaw,  Monday,  August  12,  1918.  Well  finished  previ- 
ous week.  Reported  from  50-200  barrels. 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS 


227 


LOG  No.  152. 


BRECK  CRAWFORD  FARM. 
Mouth  of  Cope's  Branch. 


Strata                                                        Thickness  Depth 
PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil   8  8 

Lime 22  30 

Sand   55  85 

Slate  15  100 

Sand   62  162 

Slate  5  167 

Sand  13  180 

Slate  90  270 

Sand  80  350 

Slate  : 7  357 

White  sand  80  437 

Brown  slate 3  440 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Sandy  lime 3  443 

Sandy  slate  29  472 

Sandy  lime  18  490 

Slate  16  506 

Lime— "Big  lime"  Gas  at  620 204  710 

Sandy  shale  10  720 

White  shale  32  752 

Sand   ,..  143  895 

Sandy  shale  290  1185 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Brown  shale  „ 159  1344 

Black  shale  3  1347 

Lime  shell  1  1348 

Sandy  shell   14  1362 

Black  shell 18  1380 

Brown  lime  20  1400 

White  lime  35  1435 

Sandy  lime.     Oil  and  water  at  1460  112  1547 

Blue  sandy  shale  10  1557 

Brown  lime  ...  10  1567 


228  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

LOG  No.  153. 

HARGIS   FARM 

Four  miles  up  South  Fork  of  Quicksand  Creek. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 
PENNSYLVANIAN   SYSTEM. 

Sand  and  gravel  12  12 

Sand   53  65 

Coal   2  67 

Slate  23  90 

Coal  2  92 

Sand   10  102 

Slate  43  145 

Coal   3  148 

Sand  10  158 

Slate  9  167 

Coal   3  170 

Slate    70  240 

Sand   10  250 

Slate  37  287 

Sand   60  347 

Slate    » 10  357 

Sand   200  657 

Slate   93  650 

Sand   200  850 

Slate  5  855 

Sand  (base  of  Pottsville)  115  970 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

"Little  lime"   „ 25  995 

"Pencil   cave"   5  1000 

"Big  lime"   190  1190 

Blue  sand  100  1290 

Red  rock  40  1330 

Sandy  slate   175  1505 

"Berea  Grit"  (>?)*— Oil  and  gas  show 70  1575 

Slate 30  1605 

DEVONIAN   SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  275  1880 

White   slate  30  1910 

Lime  114  2024 

Slate  „ 2  2026 

*The  Berea  probably  does  not  extend  this  far  south. 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS  229 

LOG  No.  154. 

WELL  ON  WOLF  CREEK  AT  WOLFCOAL. 
Big  Bird  Oil  &  Gas  Co.,  Lessee. 
T.  H.  Drake.  Contractor  &  Driller. 

Strata                                                          Thickness  Depth 

Top  soil  10  10 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Broken  lime  5  15 

Blue  slate  115  130 

Sand „...      15  145 

Slate   5  150 

Sand 25  i  175 

Shale  2  cased  with 

177-8%  177 

Black  slate  123  -300 

Sand  150  called  salt 

sand  450 

Shale    100  .  550 

Sand   , 126  676 

Coal   _ ,10  686 

Shale   150  836 

Sand   84  920 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Shale   80  1000 

Sand  70  showing  of 

oil  1070 

Red    rock    30  1100 

Lime  shell 5  cased  with 

6%   casing  1105 

Sand 50  1155 

Shale    50  1205 

Broken  lime  45  1250 

Big  lime 115  oil  and  gas 

-  flowed  60  hrs.  1365 

Big  lime   50  1415 

Lime  shell  10  green  in 

color  1425 

Shale 90  Red  rock  1515 

Blue  slate  150  1665 

Sand  i 50  Berea  sand 

S.  of  O.  1715 

Sha'.e    „ 35  green  1750 

Shale   30  light  1780 

Sand   20  1800 

Shale    15  pink  1815 

Shale   15  light  1830 


230  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Brown  shale  ......................................................  210  2040 

Shale    ..................................................................      10  light  2050 

Brown  shale  ......................................................      25  2075 

Sand  shale  ........................................................      25  2100 

"Corniferous"  lime  ..........................................  100  in  and  still 

drilling. 

LOG  No.  155.  DAVIS  FARM. 

7  Miles  up  South  Fork  of  Quicksand  Creek. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Sand   ....................................................................      15  15 

I       Slate  ....................................................................      25  40 

Lime  ................................................................      10  50 

Slate  ...............  -  ...................................  -  ..............    425  475 

Sand  ................  -  ................................................  ~    100  575 

i        Slate       ................................................................      10  585 

__________      30  615 


Slate  ....................................................................  5  620 

Sand  ....................................................................  280       .  -t-         900 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Slate  ....................................................................  90  990 

"Little  lime"   ....................................................  25  1015 

i       White  sand  .................................  _  .....................  55  1070 

Lime  ....................................................................  10  1080 

Slate  ..................................  _  ................................  15  1095 

Lime  ....................................................................  21  1116 

"Pencil  cave"  ....................................................  2  1118 

"Big  lime"  ............................................................  182  1300 

Blue  sand  ..........................................................  80  1380 

Red  rock  ...............  „  ..........  _  ...............................  77  1457 

Slate  ...........................................  _____  ..............  ___  108  1565 

Sand  ....................................................................  10  1575 

Slate  .............  ......................................................  37  1612 

"Berea"  (?)*  ............  .  ................  _  ......................  40  1652 

................................................................  5  1657 

(?)  ...........................................  _  .........  68  1725 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM, 

Black  slate  .................................  _  .....................  305  2030 

White  slate  .......  ~  ......................  _  .......................  25  2055 

Lime  .......................  _  ...........................................  175  2230 

Sand   .....................  „  .............................................  60  2290 

Slate  ....................................................................  40  2330 

Red  rock  ......................  __________________________  70  2400 

Blue  slate  ..........................................................  50  2450 

Red  rock  ................................  .  ____  .  ......................  50  2500 

*Berea  probably  not  this  far  south. 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS 


231 


LOG  No.  156. 

Well  on  the  J.  A.  Turner  farm  1  mile  up  the  right  fork  of  Longs  Creek. 
Started  drilling  January  6,  1919,  finished  May  5,  1919. 

Drilled  hy  Foreman  and  Harris. 
Casing  head  elevation  805  feet  A.  T. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil   13  13 

Lime — blue  7  20 

Gray  sand    (water) _ 20  40 

Lime  20  60 

Brown  slate  _ 15  75 

White  lime  15  90 

Blue  slate  10  100 

White  sand— hard  5  105 

Blue  slate 20  125 

Sand 10  135 

At  130  feet  gas  about  500,000  ru.  feet. 

Slate  25  160 

Sand   15  175 

Black  slate  „ 15  190 

White  sand 20  210 

Slate  _ 20  230 

Blue  lime  10  240 

White  shale  3  243 

White    lime    12  255 

White  slate  ...„ 5  260 

Lime  25  285 

Black  slate  _ 15  300 

White  sand  20  320 

Brown  slate  10  330 

Sand   26  356 

Brown  slate  .. „ 44  390 

Lime  10  400 

Blue  slate  6  405 

"Salt"  sand  _ 55  460 

Slate  _ 20  480 

Set  8^4  casing  at  460. 

White  shale  _ -  30  510 

Gas  at  480.  ^ 

Slate  50  660 

White  shale  12  572 

Sand  second  "salt"  sand 60  632 

Blue  slate  _ 18  650 

Sand  very  hard  175  825 

White  shale  5  830 

White  sand  ...  90  920 


232  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Blue  slate  18  938 

Sand  hard  22  950 

Blue  slate  20  970 

Little  lime 15  985 

Black  slate  22  1007 

"Big  lime"  set  casing  42  ft  in 183  1190 

White  slate  20  1210 

Red    rock    30  1240 

Injun  sand  15  1255 

Red  rock  52  1307 

Waverly  shale  153  1560 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Brown  shale  185  1745 

White  s'ate  15  .  1760 

Brown    shale    15  1775 

White  slate  and  sand 15  1790 

Black   shale   17  1807 

Top  of  "Irvine"  Limestone  1807 

"Irvine"    sand    248  2055 

Red  rock 10  2065 

Only  a  small  upper  part  of  the  248  feet  marked  "Irvine"  sand  is 

the.  Onondaga  or  Corniferous  Limestone.     The  lower  and  greater  part 
belongs  in  the  Niagara  series. 

BEECKINRIDGE  COUNTY. 

LOG  No.  157. 

WELL  AT  CLOVERPORT. 

(Gas.  Well.) 

Strata                                                          Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil    12  12 

Brown   shale   _ _ 20  32 

Blue   shale   26  58 

Gray  lime 30  88 

Blue   shale   _ 1  89 

Gray  lime  2  91 

Blue   shale   11  102 

Brown  shale  11  113 

White    sand    32  145 

Blue  shale  38  183 

Fossil  lime  _ 2  185 

Blue   shale   6  191 

Lime  7  198 

Shale   36  234 

Lime    ..  28  262 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS  25 

Shale 18  280 

Lime  20  300 

Dark  shale  8  308 

Lime 15  323 

Shale 6  329 

Lime  60  389 

Shale    .  12  401 

Lime— Sulphur  water  55  456 

Shale  4  460 

Lime— Salt   water   93  553 

Sand   20  573 

Lime— Oil  shows  299  872 

Gray  porous  lime— Gas  15  887 

Blue  lime. 

Well  starts  in  the  Chester  and  is  all  in  the  Mississippian. 

LOG  No.  158.  ERNEST  FREY  FARM. 

3  Miles  S.  E.  of  Cloverport. 

Strata                                                          Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil   18  18 

Lime  27  45 

Red  shale  25  70 

Gray  shale   25  95 

Broken  lime  „ _  30  125 

White  and  red  shales  75  200 

Sandy   lime   10  210 

Shale 25  235 

White  lime  35  270 

Slate  _ 15  285 

White  lime  25  310 

Shales    „  25  335 

Gray  lime— Slate  break  at  405 390  725 

Brown  sandy  lime ,  125  850 

Dark  sandy  lime  100  950 

Brown   lime  10  :  960 

Broken    dark   lime — streaks   of  red   and 

black  shale  65  1025 

Black  shelly   lime — black  and   red  slate 

breaks   35  1060 

Dark  lime  -  439  1499 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  117  1616 

Light  gray  lime  ~ 14  1630 

Brown  lime  15  1645 

Gray  lime  126  1771 

(Well  starts  in  Chester). 


2S4       OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

LOG  No.  159. 

WELL  AT  WEBSTER. 

Strata                                                          Thickness  Depth 
MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Lime  895                      895 

DEVONIAN  SYSTIJM. 

Black  shale  75                      970 

LOG  No.  160. 

WELL  AT  HARDINSBURG. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil   17                         17 

Lime 35                        62 

Sand _ 57                      109 

Lime  25                      134 

Sand  ~ „ 76                      210 

Lime  735                      945 

Lime  and  shale— Gas  at  1055 435                    1380 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale 95                    1475 

Lime  20                     1495 

(Well  starts  in  Chester). 

LOG  No.  161. 

WELL  AT  STEPHENSPORT.  ; 

(From  drillings). 

Strata                                                          Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil   „ 22                         22 

Gray  shale 3                        25 

Gray  lime  _ 10                        35 

Brown  sand 32                        67 

Gray,  crinoidal  lime at                 75 

Gray  lime  "                  85 

White  lime   "                  96 

Gray  lime "               100 

Black  shale  "                130 

Light  dove-colored  lime  "                135 

Soft  white  lime  "                155 

Gray  and  pink  lime  "                 230 

Gray  oolite  , , "                 240 

Lithographic  lime   "                 276 

Gray  oolitic  lime "                300 

Gray  and  white  crinoidal  lime "                317 

White  lime  "                335 

Gray  lime  "                350 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS  235 

White   lime   "  380  and  395 

Gray  lime  "                 420 

Black  shale  "                425 

Gray  lime  "  435  and  450 

Light  lime  "                470 

Dark   lime   "                 475 

Dark  lime  and  black  shale  mixed "  482  and  500 

White  quartzite  "                 510 

Dove-colored  lime  "                515 

Gray  lime  "  518  and  525 

Black  lime  "                 530 

Gray  lime  "                 535 

Black  lime  "                540 

Gray  lime  "  555  and  585 

Black  lime  "                600 

Light  mottled  lime  "                 620 

Dark  gray  lime  "                 630 

White  quartzite  "                 638 

Brown  lime  "  644  and  650 

Gray  lime at  656,  662,  680,  686  and  692 

White  lime  at                700 

Gray  lime at  712,  722,  735,  755  to  807  and  813 

Black  lime  at  816,  835  and  840 

White  lime   : at               865 

Gray  and  white  lime  "                 890 

Dove-colored  lime  "                 900 

Gray  lime at  915,  1030,  1045,  1050  to  1100,  1124  and  1130 

White  and  gray  lime  at              1138 

Very  dark  lime "               1150 

Black  lime  1155  to  1185 

Sandy  black  lime at             1230 

DEVONIAN   SYSTEM.  * 

Black  shale  1253  to  1315 

(Well  starts  in  Chester  and  stops  in  Black  Shale). 

BUTLER  COUNTY.     ' 

LOG  No.  162. 

W.  J.  TUCK  FARM 
Near  Sugar  Grove. 

Strata                                                         Thickness  Depth 
MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil 10                          10 

Lime    173                       183 

White   sand 10                       193 

White  lime  15                       208 

Sand  (Cypress)  ...                    207                       415 


236       OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

Iron  pyrites  5  420 

Lime  and  shaly  sand 170  590 

Lime  and  sand — Black  sulphur  water  at 

590    85  675 

Salt    water    sand 105  780 

Blue  lime  220  lOtOO 

White  sand  (lime?)  38  1038 

Broken  lime  62  1100 

Blue  lime  100  1200 

Slate  and  shale  50  1250 

Hard  dark  lime  90  1340 

Soft  white  lime 90  1430 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black   shale   110  1540 

Lime  20  1560 

White  lime  3  1563 

Brown  lime  49  1612 

Gray  lime  43  1655 

White  lime  12  1667 

Blue  lime  3  1670 

Oil  sand  (lime)— Salt  water 15  1685 

(Well  starts  in  Chester.) 


CALDWELL  COUNTY. 

LOG  No.  163. 

EUGENE  YOUNG  WELL 
Three  miles  N.  E.  of  Fredonia. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil 15  15 

Slate  and  linre  10  25 

Hard  black  lime  „ 25  50 

Slate  25  75 

Gray   sand   10  85 

Slate  and  shaly  white  sand  40  125 

White  sand  50  175 

Red  shale  10  180 

Sand  55  235 

Slate  65  300 

Lime — Black  sulphur  water  25  325 

Slate  and  shale  75  400 

Slate  and  shaly  lime 40  440 

Hard  light  lime  50  490 

Sand  and  slate  ...  30  520 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS  237 

White  quartzite  (?)  55  575 

Sand  25  600 

Lime  35  635 

Slate  15  650 

Hard  lime  15  665 

Pink  shale  15  680 

Lime— Salt  water  at  740  310  990 

Hard  sand 10  1000 

Lime  10  1010 

Sand  10  1020 

Lime  15  1035 

Sand  265  1300 

Blue  and  black  hard  lime  1044  2344 

(The  Devonian  Shale  does  not  show  in  this  record  but  was  probably 
included  in  the  last  1044  feet.) 


CARROLL  COUNTY. 

LOG  No.  164. 

WELL  AT  CARROLLTON 
(Partial   record — from   drillings). 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 
ORDOVICIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil    96  96 

Light  crystalline  lime  at                 96 

Gray  lime  "                 180 

Light  crystalline  lime  "                 200 

Light  brown  lime  "                 230 

Light  magnesian  lime  242 

Gray  magnesian  lime 260 

Gray  lime  "                 280 

Light  fine-grained  lime  "                285 

Light  crystalline  and  gray  fossil  lime........  335 

Tyrone  limestone  • at  420,   430  and  475 

Magnesian  limestone  at                495 

Chazy   limestone  • 500  to  1000 

Green  shale  at              1000 

Calciferous— "Blue  Lick"  water  ...  1000  to  1145 


238  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

CARTER  COUNTY. 

LOG  No.  165. 

Well  near  Ratcliff  (Lawrence  Co.). 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Sand  and  gravel  40                         40 

Slate  21                         61 

Sand,  hard 36                         97 

Black  slate  18                       115 

Coal    4                       119 

Black  slate  „ 61                       180 

Coal    5                       185 

Black  slate  85                       270 

Gray  slate  15                       285 

White  sand 15                       300 

Black  slate  30                       330 

White  sand   15  345 

White  slate  25                       370 

Sand,  hard 

White  sand  _ „  400 

Black  slate  145  545 

White  sand  5  550 

Sand,  hard  _ 15                       565 

White  slate  85  650 

Gray  sand  _ 10                      660 

Black  slate  5  665 

Sand    65  730 

Gray  sand  -  40                       770 

White  sand  30  800 

Gray  sand  5  805 

White   sand  27  832 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

White  slate  33  865 

"Big  lime"  112  977 

Black  slate  7  984 

White  sand 46  1030 

White  slate  170  1200 

Slate 70  1270 

White  lime  10  1280 

White  slate 45  1325 

White  lime  15  1340 

Gray  sandy  slate  « 60  1400 

Black  slate  35  1435 

Brown  shale  (Sunbury?)  17  1452 

Gray  sand  (Berea  ?) 18  1470 

Black  slate  '. 2  1472 

Gray  lime  ....  2  1474 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS 


White  slate 

Gray  lime  

White  slate  

Gray  lime — Oil  show 

White  slate  

Gray   lime   

White  slate  .... 


DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  slate  95 

White  slate  50 

Black  slate  200 

White  slate  232 

White  lime  and  dark  slate 8 

"Ragland"  sand  (?) — Oil  and  gas  show.... 


1477 
1482 
1492 
1512 
1518 
1585 
1595 


1690 

1740 
1940 
2172 
2180 


LOG  No.  166. 


GUFFEY  WELL. 
Near  Grayson. 


Strata                                                          Thickness  Depth 
PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Sand  ....................................................................  28  28 

Black  slate  ........................................................  30  58 

Sand  ....................................................................  12  70 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  slate  ........................................................  10  80 

"Big  lime"   .........................................................  20  100 

Green  sandy  shale  ..............  ]                     ..  230  330 

Gray  slate  and  sand  shells    I                      ..  270  600 

Sandy  and  shale  ....................  f  (Waverly)  _  50  650 

Sand,  slate  and  shells  ........  J                     „  85  735 

Black  slate  (Sunbury)  ..................................  22  757 

Sand—  Oil  and  gas  (Berea)*  ......................  112  869 

Gray  slate  .............  .  ..........................................  25  894 

Red  slate  ........................  ..  ____  ...........................  6  900 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  slate  ........................................................  116  1016 

White  slate  ......................................................  5  1021 

Black  slate  ........................................................  169  1190 

White  slate  ..........  .,  ..........................................  20  1210 

Black  slate  ........................................................  95  1305 

White  slate  ......................................................  118  1423 

Lime  —  Raglans  sand  —  Oil  and  gas  show..  2  1425 

Lime—  Salt  water  at  1475  ............................  55  1480 

*0nly  upper  part  in  Berea. 

(This  record  is  very  irregular). 


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OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 


LOG  No.  167.  CATHERINE  GREGORY  FARM. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Gravel    •  10  10 

Blue  shale  15  25 

-White  lime— "Big  lime"  20  45 

;White   sand  -  115  160 

Blue  shale 320  480 

White    shale    180  1 660 

.White   sand  108  768 

.White  lime  60  828 

Blue  shale  30  858 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale    ~)                              260  1118 

White  shale                                   12  1130 

Black  shale    f   (Devonian)        4Q  lm 

White  shale   J                               90  .  1260 

Lime— Ragland   sand?   70  1330 

SILURIAN  SYSTEM. 

.White  lime  110  1440 

White   sand  10  1450 

White  lime  40  1490 

White   sand   60  1550 

Red  rock  49  1599 

LOG  No.  168.  RICE  OIL  COMPANY. 

JEFF  RIFFE  FARM, 
Two  Miles  N.  E.  of  Webbville. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil    30  30 

Light  slate  30  60 

Sand,  hard  40  100 

'Black  slate  190  290 

Sand  '. 10  300 

Black  shale 40  340 

Sand  5  345 

White  slate  30  375 

Sand,  hard 25  400 

Black  slate  150  550 

Sand,  hard  10  560 

White  slate  90  650 

Sand,  hard   10  660 

Black  slate  70  730 

Sand,  hard  45  775 

Sand    30  805 

Sand,  hard  5  810 

Sand  ...  25  835 


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241 


MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Slate    35 

Lime >(Cased-at  885)  ~  55 

Slate [    "Big  lime"  5 

Lime    j                                        105 

White  slate 240 

Lime    (?)    5 

Slate    45 

Lime  (?)  20 

White  slate 55 

Black   slate   55 

Berea  Grit   (?)   25 

Broken  lime  and  slate 25 

Lime   (?)  15 

Slate  10 

'  Lime  (?)  70 

Slate  '•  15 

DEVONIAN   SYSTEM. 

Black  slate                                     90 

White  slate                                    50 

Black  slate        (Devonian)           200 

Light  slate                                      255 

Sandy    lime — hard    (Corniferous) 47 


870 
1035 
980 
975 
1275 
1280 
1325 
1345 
1400 
1455 
1470 
1495 
1510 
1520 
1590 
1605 

1695 
1745 
1945 
2200 

2247 


LOG  No.  169. 

WELL  AT  SOLDIER. 

Strata  Thickness 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil    ..  5 


Shale 

Sand 
DEVONIAN   SYSTEM. 

Black   shale   '. 

''Oil  sand." 


128 
307 


....     187 


Depth 

5 

133 
440 

627 


LOG  No.  170. 

WELL  NEAR  DENTON. 

Strata  Thickness 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil   5 

Quicksand   65 


Lime   (?)  ... 
Shale 

White  sand  

Shale   

(base  of  Pottsville) 


80 
50 

50 
50 
20 


Depth 

5 

70 
150 
200 
250 
300 
500 


242                 OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY       £>! 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

"Big  lime" 90  690 

"Waverly"    390  980 

Black  shale   (Sunhury)   90  1070 

"Berea  sand"*  100  1170 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale 500  1670 

Blue  shale  100  1770 

"Clinton"*  70  1840 

*Driller's  distinction. 


LOG  No.  171. 

STRAIGHT  CREEK  COAL  CO.  WELL  NEAR  DENTON. 

Strata                                                          Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil   _ 20  20 

White  sandy  shale  60  80 

White  slate 20  100 

Brown  sand  58  158 

Coal    2  160 

Lime  (?)  and  sand 110  270 

ghale  46  316 

Lime  30  346 

White  slate  10  356 

Sand,  hard  9  365 

Coal. 

White  sand  60  425 

Black  slate  10  435 

White  lime  15  450 

White   sand   60  510 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

White  slate  14  g£4 

White  sand  46  570 

Lime  (?)  109  679 

White  shale  443  1122 

Lime   (?)  125  1247 

White   slate  _ 28  1275 

DEVONIAN   SYSTEM. 

Brown  shale  447  1722 

Lime  and  shale  40  1762 

White  shale  68  1830 

White   lime  80  1910 

White  shale  10  1920 

White  lime  95  2015 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS  243 

CHRISTIAN  COUNTY. 

LOG  No.  172. 

WELL  ONE  MILE  S.  OF  HOPKINSVILLE, 

Partial  record.    From,  drillings. 
MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

At  25,  35  and  65— Light  colored  oolitic  lime. 

At  85— White  oolitic  lime. 

At  95,  122,  140,  175,  195,  220,  255  and  280— Light  gray  lime. 

At  315  and  365 — Dark  gray  lime. 

At  380,  390  and  415 — Light  gray  lime. 

At  435,  455,  465,  495,  500,  520,  540  and  555— Very  dark  lime. 

At  575— Gray  lime. 

At  585 — Brown  lime. 

At  606,  620  and  630— Gray  lime. 

At  652  and  680— Black  lime. 

At  690,  700,  725,  740  and  750— Gray  lime. 

At  780— Black  lime. 

At  800,  810,  850,  860  and  875— Gray  lime. 

At  911,  920  and  930— Black  lime. 

At  950 — Gray  lime. 

At  975  and  1015— Black  lime. 

At  1060  to  1440— Black  shale. 

At  1480— Gray  lime. 
DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

At  1520,  1530  and  1555— Black  shale. 

At  1560 — Gray  lime. 

At  1565,  1570  and  1585— White  lime. 

At  1610  and  1612— Light  colored  lime. 
Oil  shows  at  25  and  555. 


CLAY  COUNTY. 

LOG  No.  173. 

Nancy  Potter,  No.  1,  on  Blue  Salt  Run,  a  Branch  of  Goose  Creek. 

8  Miles  west  of  Manchester.    La  Salle  Oil  Co.,  Operators.    Elevation 
about  950  feet. 

Thickness  Depth 
PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil    _ „.        9  9 

Shell    3  12 

Gravel    6  18 

Sand    4  22 

Coal    —        5  27 

Dark  shale   131  158 

Hard  sand  -    106  264 

Brown  shale 10  274 

Sand    ..                             .    146  420    Base    of    Conglomerate 


244 


OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES   OF  KENTUCKY 


MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM, 

Dark   shale   30 

Dark  lime   10 

Light  shale  25 

Red  rock  15 

Slate    50 

Red  rock  5 

Light  shale  5 

Big  lime  240 

Big  Injun  55 

Red  rock  7 

Dark   shale   528 

DEVONIAN   SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  135 

Light  shale  25 

Black  shale  10 

Black  lime  5 

Brown  shale  35 

Gray  lime,  hard 15 

SILURIAN  SYSTEM. 

Blue   slate   5 

White  slate  85 

Red  rock  5 

Blue   slate   25 

Dark  sand  10 

Green  slate  115 

ORDOVICIAN  SYSTEM. 

Brown  lime  10 

Green  slate  25 

Soft  white  lime  5 

Green  slate  10 

Red  rock  20 

Green  slate,  very  h 12 

Gray  lime,  hard  18 

Slate  and  shells  20 

Gray  slate  50 

Gray   lime    20 

Lime,  shells,  slate  25 

Lime  and  flint  with 

flakes  of  slate 15 

Lime,  flint  170 

Gray   lime   40 

Lime  and  slate  60 

Blue  slate  30 

Gray  lime,  dark  ...  15 


450 
460 
485 
500 
550 
555 
560 
SOD 
855 
862 
1190 


Gas  at  700 
1  Waverly 


Devonian    black   shale 
Gas  at  1350 


1525 
1350 
1360 
1365 
1400 
1415  Base  of  Devonian 


Silurian 


1420 
1505 
1510 
1535 
1545 
1660 


1670  Ordovician 

1695 

1700 

1710 

1730 

1742 

1760 

1780 

1830 

1850 

1875 

1890 
2060 
2100 

2160  Trenton 
2190 
2205 


RECORDS   OF  DRILLED  WELLS 


245 


LOG  No.  174.                  DIAMOND  DRILL  HOLE. 
Mouth  of  Big  Creek. 
Approximate  Elevation  810.  ft.  1 
Thicl 
PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM.                            Feet 
Sand  and  'gravel  10 

L.  T. 
;ness 
In. 
0 
0 
4 
4 
10 
6 
0 
2 
10 
0 
0 
4 
•    8 
6 
6 
0 
0 
10 
5 
9 
3 
9 
7 
5 
3 
1 
8 
4 
2 
4 
2 
6 
9 
3 
0 
2 
0 
2 
2 
0 
6 
6 

Depth 
Feet     In. 
10        0 
52         0 
53         4 
53         8 
58         6 
95         0 
99         0 
101         2 
102         0 
106         0 
131         0 
146         4 
155         0 
202         6 
204         0 
205        0 
215        0 
228       10 
229        3 
253         0 
259         3 
261        0 
293        7 
296        0 
302        3 
314        4 
352         0 
371        4 
384        6 
384       10 
385        0 
386        6 
389        3 
389        6 
391        6 
391        8 
393        8 
393      10 
401        0 
420        0 
431         6 
441         0 

Sandstone   

42 

Slate 

1 

Coal 

o 

Slate   

4 

Sandstone  • 

36 

Gray  slate"  ..... 

4 

Coa}   

.       2 

Fire  clay 

o 

Sandstone  ; 

4 

Slate  . 

25 

Sandstone 

15 

Slate 

8 

Gray   shale 

47 

Coal  

1 

Fire  clay 

1 

Sandy  shale  

.  .  ...   10 

Gray  shale  .    . 

.      .     13 

Bony  coal  ....    . 

.      0 

Sandstone 

23 

Sandy  shale- 

6 

Slate 

1 

Black   shale 

32 

Sandstone 

2 

Black  shale  

6 

Sandy  shale  

_  12 

Black   shale 

38 

Sandy  shale 

18 

Black   shale   . 

13 

Coal 

.     ...      0 

Shale 

0 

Coal 

.  .      1 

Fire  clay 

2 

Coal 

0 

Shale 

2 

Coal 

.      0 

Shale 

.      2 

Coal 

.      0 

Sandy  shale 

.      7 

.     19, 

11 

Black   shale   ... 

.      9 

246  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES   OF  KENTUCKY 


Sandy  shale  

4 

0 
6 
6 
8 
4 
6 
4 
10 
6 
0 
4 
7 
11 
0 
0 
0 
3 
5 
1 
7 
8 
1 
9 
2 
0 
0 
0 
4 
6 
8 
0 
6 
0 
4 
2 
8 
10 
0 
6 
6 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
clay 

467 
502 
503 
510 
576 
576 
580 
581 
584 
585 
620 
623 
635 
676 
717 
722 
723 
747 
747 
810 
812 
812 
812 
814 
817 
829 
835 
841 
842 
852 
864 
865 
867 
896 
896 
900 
901 
902 
906 
917 
922 
927 
955 
962 
1009 
coal  and 

0 
6 
0 
8 
0 
6 
10 
8 

6 
1 
0* 
0 
0 
0 
3 
8 
9 
4 
0 
1 
10 
0 
0 
0 
0 
4 
10 
6 
6 
0 
0 
4 
6 

0 
0 
6 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
is  all  in 

Sandstone 

35 

Conglomerate    

o 

Black   shale  

7 

Sandstone  

65 

Coal  

0 

Sandstone   

4 

Sandy  shale          _ 

0 

Sandstone   

2 

Sandy  shale 

1 

Sandstone   .    . 

„    35 

Sandstone  and  coal 

.       2 

Sandy  shale  

11 

Sandstone 

41 

Hard  white  stone 

41 

Hard  broken  stone  

5 

Dark  shale 

1 

Hard  broken  sandstone 
Coal 

24 

o 

Sandstone   

62 

Conglomerate  

1 

Black  slate  

0 

Coal  

0 

Conglomerate 

.       1 

Flint  clay 

3 

Sandy  shale 

12 

White   sandstone   

Sandy  shale 

6 

6 

Black  slate  
Sandy  shale  

.      9 

White  sandstone  

,  12 

Dark  shale  

.  0 

Broken  white  stone 

2 

Sandstone 

29 

Conglomerate   

0 

Slate 

3 

Coal 

o 

Flint  clay  _  

1 

Sandstone   

4 

Dark   slate 

10 

Shale  

5 

Sandy  shale  

5 

White   sandstone   - 

28 

Hard  white  stone 

7 

Sandstone   

47 

Well  begins  about  350 
the  Pottsville. 

feet  below  the  Fire 

RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS 


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CLINTON  COUNTY. 

LOG  No.  175. 

SARAH  SIDWELL  FARM. 

Strata  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Top  of  well  0 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Top  of  black  shale  (Devonian) 350 

Bottom  of  black  shale 380 

Lime— Gas  and  oil  show  at  649 380  to  1150 


W.  J.  WILLIAMS  FARM. 
Strata 
MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Top   of  well 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Top  of  black  shale        ) 

Bottom  of  black  shale  (  devonian) 

Lime — Oil  show  836  to  854. 


Depth 
0 

...330 
...355 


LOG  No.  176. 


CUMBEELAND  COUNTY. 


WM.  HURT  FARM. 


Strata 

ORDOVICIAN  SYSTEM. 
Blue  lime 

Gray  lime — Gas   

Gray  lime 
Black  lime — Gas 

Gray  lime  

Gray  lime — Gas 

Black  lime  

White  lime  

Gray  lime 

Gray  lime — Oil  and  gas  show 

Gray  lime 

White  lime  ... 


Thickness 


125 

140 
45 

105 
30 
40 
90 

215 
65 

340 
7 


LOG  No.  177. 


WM.  HURT  FARM. 


Strata 
ORDOVICIAN  SYSTEM. 

Blue  lime  

Gray  lime  

Black  lime  

Gray  lime — Pencil  cave  at  625. 

White  lime 

Gray  lime 


Thickness 


...  100 
...  220 
...  30 
...  70 
280 


Depth 

60 

185 

325 

370 

475 

505 

545 

635 

850 

915 
1255 
1262 


Depth 

300 
400 
620 
650 
720 
1000 


248  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES.  OF  KENTUCKY 

LOG  No.  178. 

A.  M.  FUDGE  FARM. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

ORDOVICIAN  SYSTEM. 

Blue  lime— Gas  at  150 200  200 

Black  lime— Gas  at  285— Oil  show  at  452..  255  455 

Gray  lime  _ „_. .115  .670 

Black  lime— Flowing  oil  at  635 65  635 

Gray  lime — Pencil  cave  at  645 ..  365  1000 


LOG  No.  179. 

WM.  BRYANT  FARM. 

Strata                                                          Thickness  Depth 
ORDOVICIAN  SYSTEM. 

White  lime  50  50 

Blue  lime — Gas  at  225 200  250 

Gray  lime  — „ „      50  300 

Blue  lime  j, 75  375 

Gray  lime  200  575 

-  -Dark  gray  lime— ^Pencil  cave  at  600 50  625 

White  lime  100  •'  725 

-•Oray  lime  307  1032 


LOG  No.  180. 

WM.  BRYANT  FARM. 

Strata  .  Thickness  Depth 

ORDOVICIAN  SYSTEM. 

•  Blue  lime   100                       100 

Black  lime  380                       480 

White  lime — Gas  show  20                       500 

Brown   lime   20                       520 

White  lime  - „  20                       540 

Brown  lime   20                       560 

White  lime  15                       575 

Gray  lime  83                       658 

Pencil  cave  2                       660 

White  lime  90                        750 

Brown  lime  360  1110 

Gray  lime  270  1380 

Brown  lime  ...  20  1400 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS  249 

LOG  No.  181. 

B.  F,  IRVINE  FARM. 

Strata                                                          Thickness  Depth 

ORDOVICIAN  SYSTEM. 

Blue  lime — Oil  sh6w  75  75 

Black  lime— Salt  water  125  200 

Gray  lime — Sulphur  water 200  '  400 

White  lime— Salt  water  40  440 

Gray  lime — Fresh '  water  20  460 

Black  lime — Gas  60  520 

Gray  lime — Pencil  cave  50  570 

Gray  lime — Bitter  water  40  610 

Gray  lime — Salt  water  65  675 

White  lime— Salt  water  75  750 

Gray  lime — Salt  water 250  1000 

LOG  No.  182. 

ELLEN  SMITH  FARM. 

Strata                                                             Thickness  Depth 

ORDOVICIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil 10  10 

Blue  lime   90  100 

Black  lime  20  120 

Gray  lime— Gas  at  135 72  192 

Brown  lime— Gas- -at  220..: 60  252 

Black  lime  , 150  402 

Gray  lime  108  510 

Black  lime— Gas  at  520... 80  590 

Green  pencil  cave  3  593 

Brown  lime— Oil  show  at  975.., 388  •  981 

Gray  lime  6  987 

Brown  lime  18  1005 

LOG  No.  183. 

CLOYD-  HEIRS  FARM. 

Strata                                                             Thickness  Depth 

ORDOVICIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil    42  42 

Blue  lime   160  202 

Black  lime   30  232 

Gray  lime  40  272 

Brown   lime   30.  .  302 

Gray  lime  75  377 

Brown  lime  ~ 70  447 

Black  lime— Gas  at  445  48  495 

Brown   lime   7  502 

Green  pencil  cave  2  504 


250  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

Brown  lime   341  845 

Gray  lime  _ 18  863 

Brown  lime  157  1020 

Gray  lime  60  1080 

Brown   lime  _ „ 40  1120 

Black  lime  80  1200 

Brown  lime   60  1260 

Gray  lime 60  1320 

Brown  lime 20  1340 

White  lime  20  1360 

Brown  lime   „ 30  1390 

White  lime  _ 30  1420 

Gray  lime  ...  80  1500 


LOG  No.  184. 

J.  E.  HEARD  FARM. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

ORDOVICIAN  SYSTEM. 

Gray  lime  270  270 

Brown  lime  55  325 

Gray  lime  75  400 

Brown  lime  48  448 

Gray  lime— Gas  at  448  44  492 

Dark  blue  lime— Oil  show  at  492 12  504 

Gray  lime— Oil  show  at  505  12  516 

Green  pencil  cave 3  519 

Gray  lime  6  525 

Brown  lime — Gas  at  525 24  549 

Gray  lime  60  609 

Brown  lime  29  638 

Dark  blue  lime  15  653 

Gray  lime  32  685 

Brown  lime  215  900 

Gray  lime  _ 40  940 

Brown  lime  60  1000 

LOG  No.  185.  P;V    j 

J.  E.  HEARD  FARM. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

ORDOVICIAN  SYSTEM. 

Blue  lime _ 300  300 

Gray  lime  „ 100  400 

Black  lime  - 100  500 

Gray  lime  25  525 

Pencil  cave  _ 10  535 

Gray  lime  _ 468  1003 

Oil  at  603,  671,  701  and  910. 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS  251 

LOG  No.  186. 

J.  E.  HEARD  FARM. 

Strata                                                          Thickness  Depth 

ORDOVICIAN  SYSTEM. 

Blue  lime  260  260 

Gray  lime _ 103  363 

Brown  lime 33  396 

Gray  lime  129  525 

Black  lime  _ 30  555 

Lime  and  sand  18  573 

Green  pencil  cave 2  575 

Brown   lime   _ 30  605 

Gray  lime  18  623 

Lime  and  sand — Oil  show  at  654 47  670 

Brown   lime   45  715 

Gray  lime  43  758 

Brown  lime  42  800 

LOG  No.  187. 

J.  E.  HEARD  FARM. 

ORDOVICIAN  SYSTEM.  :     : 

Strata                                                             Thickness  Depth 

Blue   lime   75  75 

Gravel    (?)    „ 3  78 

Blue  lime  _ 80  158 

Black  lime  50  208 

Gray  lime  30  238 

Blue  lime  _ 45  283 

Lime  and  sand — Heavy  gas  flow  at  290 15  298 

Brown  lime  140  438 

Gray  lime  55  493 

Black  lime  30  523 

Lime  and  sand  9  532 

Green  pencil  cave  3  535 

Brown  lime  _  30  565 

Green  lime  —  56  621 

Brown  lime— Oil  at  643 43  664 

LOG  No.  188. 

J.  E.  HEARD  FARM. 

ORDOVICIAN  SYSTEM. 

Strata                                                          Thickness  Depth 

Blue  lime  60  60 

Black  lime  30  90 

Gray  lime  60  150 

Blue  lime  „  70  220 

Lime  and  sand  65  285 

Brown  lime— Gas  at  290 110  395 


£52       OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

Gray  lime  75  470 

Black  lime  30  500 

Lime  and  sand „  10  510 

Green  pencil  cave  „ „.  3  613 

Brown  lime — Gas  at  520 25  538 

Lime  and  sand— Gas  at  555 17  555 

Brown   lime   167  722 

'Oil  at  567,  629  and  712.     Gas  at  625  and  685. 

LOG' No.  189. 

J.  E;  HEARD  FARM. 
ORDOVICIAN  SYSTEM. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

Blue  lime   100  100 

Gray  lime — Gas  at  408 350  450 

Black  lime  40  490 

Pencil   cave   .„  10  500 

Gray  lime— Oil  show  at  532  and  765 401  901 

LOG  No.  190. 

J.  E.  HEARD  FARM. 
ORDOVICIAN  SYSTEM. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

Blue  lime   200  200 

Gray  lime  „  200  400 

Black  lime  „ _ 100  -500 

Gray  lime  _ 280  780 

Pencil  cave  at  525.    Oil  at  553  and  756. 

LOG  No.  191. 

J.  E.  HEARD  FARM. 

-Strata                                                          Thickness  Depth 

ORDOVICIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil   _  54  54 

Blue  lime „  80  134 

Gray  lime  , 30  164 

Blue  lime   _  36  200 

Black  lime — Gas  at  250  50  250 

Blue  lime — Gas  at  310 _  60  310 

Brown   lime 100  410 

Blue    lime    35  445 

Black  lime— Oil  at  445 30  475 

Gray  lime  5  -480 

Green  pencil  ca,ve 3  483 

Brown  lime  29  512 

Sandy  lime— Oil  at  561 49  561 

Lime    .  244  805 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS  253 

LOG  No.  192. 

J.  W.  CLOYD  FARM. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

ORDOVICIAN  SYSTEM. 

Lime    350  350 

Gray  sand  (?)  125  475 

Lime    33  508 

White   slate   2  510 

White  lime— Oil  show  at  522 190  700 

Sand   (?)   150  850 

Gray  lime  30  880 

White   slate 10  890 

Dark  lime  35  925 

White  lime  ...  25  950 


LOG  No.  193. 

W.  R.  NEELY  FARM. 

Strata                                                          Thickness  Depth 

ORDOVICIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil   8  8 

Blue  lime   142  150 

Black  lime  132  282 

Gray  lime 18  800 

Brown   lime   80  380 

Gray  lime  50  430 

Brown   lime   42  472 

Black  lime   53  525 

Gray  lime  and  sand  - 10  535 

Pencil   cave   2  537 

Gray  lime  4  641 

Brown   lime   100  641 

Lime  and  sand  50  691 

Brown  lime  ....                     183  874 


LOG  No.  194. 

.  W.  J.  HUTCHINS  FARM. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

ORDOVICIAN  SYSTEM. 

Blue  lime— Gas  at  80 80  80 

Gray  lime  120  200 

Brown   sand  6  206 

Gray  sand  7  213 

Black  lime   6  219 

Brown  sand  6  225 

Black  lime— Gas  at  325 305  530 

Brown  lime   ...  75  605 


254 


OIL  AND  GA'S  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 


Gray  lime 

Black  lime 

Gray  lime 

Green  pencil  cave 

Brown   lime   331 


....      30 

....      20 

....      11 

3 


635 
655 


669 
1000 


LOG  No.  195.  '   • 

A.  W.  BRYANT  FARM. 

Strata                                                          Thickness  Depth 

ORDOVICIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil   10  10 

Blue  lime  100  110 

Black  lime  20  130 

Gray  lime  12  142 

Black  lime   135  277 

Blue  lime 130  407 

Black  lime  80  487 

Brown  lime — Oil  at  555  88  575 

Black  lime 83  658 

Green  pencil  cave 2  660 

Brown  lime  40  700 

Brown  sand   ( ?)  85  785 

Brown  lime   279  1064 

Black  lime  15  1079 

Brown  lime  156  1235 

White  lime  115  1350 

Brown  lime  41  1391 

Brown  sand  (?)— Oil  show  at  1391 30  1421 

White  flint  40  1461 

Brown  lime  89  1550 

Gray  lime  60  1610 

Brown  lime  ...                                         70  1680 


LOG  No.  196. 


WELL  AT  NEELY'S  FERRY, 
3  1-2  Miles  below  Burksville. 


Strata 
ORDOVICIAN  SYSTEM. 

Red  clay  

Gray  lime  

Blue  slate  ... 
Brown   lime 


Black  lime— Pencil  cave  at  621. 
Brown   lime 
Black  lime 
Gray  lime 


Thickness 

25 

..    190 

35 

200 

215 

74 

21 

5 


Depth 

25 
215 
250 
450 
665 
739 
760 
765 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS  255 

LOG  No.  197. 

WELLS  AT  SALT  LICK  BEND    (PARTIAL  RECORDS). 

GRAVES  FARM. 
ORDOVICIAN  SYSTEM.  Depth 

Oil  at  519 

Bottom  at  625 

LOG  No.  198. 

CLAY  CLOYD  FARM. 

ORDOVICIAN  SYSTEM.  Depth 

Oil  at  650  and  825 

Bottom  at  .    960 


LOG  No.  199. 

RICHARDSON  FARM. 

ORDOVICIAN  SYSTEM.  Depth 

Oil  and  salt  water  at  440 

Oil  at  609  and  675 

Bottom  at  700 

LOG  No.  200. 

RICHARDSON  FARM. 

ORDOVICIAN  SYSTEM.  Depth 

Oil  at  390  and  600 

Pencil  cave  at  475 

Gas  at  '. 520 

Bottom   at   720 

LOG  No.  201. 

R.  B.  CLOYD  FARM. 

ORDOVICIAN  SYSTEM.  Depth 

Oil  at  305  and  540 

Gas  at  730 

Oil  and  gas  _ 732 

Oil  at  769 

Gas  at  800 

Bottom  at  —  839 

LOG  No.  202. 

R.  B.  CLOYD  FARM. 

ORDOVICIAN  SYSTEM.  Depth 

Pencil  cave  at 470 

Oil  at  566  and  586 

Bottom  at  ...  705 


256  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

LOG  No.  203. 

R.  B.€LOYD  FARM. 

ORDOVICIAN  SYSTEM.  Depth 

Pencil  cave  at  520 

Oil  at  641 

Bottom  at  711 

LOG  No.  204. 

McCOMAS  FARM. 

ORDOVICIAN  SYSTEM.  Depth 

Oil  at  548 

LOG  No.  205. 

GARMON  FARM. 

ORDOVICIAN  SYSTEM.  Depth 

Gas  at  37,  180  and  205 

Pencil  cave  at  -    542 

Bottom  at  910 

LOG  No.  206. 

D.  W.  CLOYD  FARM. 

ORDOVICIAN  SYSTEM.  Depth 

Oil  at  J 90 

Salt  water  at  430 

Pencil  cave  at  480 

Oil  at-  _ 518  and  597 

LOG  NO.  207. 

D.  W.  CLOYD  FARM. 

ORDOVICIAN  SYSTEM.  Depth 

Oil  at  435 

Pencil   cave   at  _ 475 

Bottom    at    800 

LOG  No.  208. 

WELLS  ON  MARROWBONE  CREEK. 

J/E.  TAYLOR  FARM. 
ORDOVICIAN  SYSTEM.  Depth 

Oil  at  248 

Bottom    at    258 

LOG  No.  209. 

McCOMAS  FARM. 

ORDOVICIAN  SYSTEM. 

Oil  at  520 

Oil  show  at  _ 594 

Bottom  at  ...  ..    615 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS  257 

LOG  No.  210. 

McCOMAS  FARM. 

ORDOVICIAN  SYSTEM.  Depth 

Oil  shows  at  180,  245  and  750  to  810 

Gas  show  at   740 

Bottom  at 875 

LOG  No.  211. 

COLLINS  FARM. 

ORDOVICIAN  SYSTEM. 

Gas  at  95,  105,  165  and  210 

Pencil   cave   at   612 

Bottom  at  740 

LOG  No.  212. 

ALEXANDER  FARM. 

ORDOVICIAN  SYSTEM. 

Gas  at  172,  315,  380  and  580 

Pencil  cave  at  620 

Bottom    at    705 

LOG  No.  213. 

BUCHANNON  FARM. 

ORDOVICIAN  SYSTEM. 

Gas  at  110,  150  and  225 

Pencil  cave  at  545 

LOG  No.  214.  WELLS  IN  WASH'S  BOTTOM. 

R.  G.  ALLEN  FARM. 

ORDOVICIAN  SYSTEM. 

Oil  at  640 

Bottom  at  805 

LOG  No.  215. 

PHILPOT  FARM. 

ORDOVICIAN  SYSTEM. 

Oil  at  500  and  625 

Bottom  at  665 

LOG  No.  216. 

GOFF  FARM. 

ORDOVICIAN  SYSTEM. 

Oil  at  765 

Bottom  at  785 

LOG  No.  217. 

STOCKDEN  FARM. 

ORDOVICIAN  SYSTEM. 

Oil    show    at    545 

Bottom  at  800 

Oil  &  Gas— 9 


258       OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

LOG  No.  218. 

OLD  CUMBERLAND  COUNTY  WELLS.* 
Name  Depth          Date 

Garbert,  opposite  Creelsboro 225  1861 

LOG  No.  219. 

Crocus,  mouth  of  Crocus  creek 190  1865 

LOG  No.  220. 

Egbert    270  1865 

LOG  No.  221. 

Old  American,  Renox  creek 171  1829 

LOG  No.  222. 

Sherman    276  1866 

LOG  No.  223. 

Gilbreath,  Bear  creek  20 

LOG  No.  224. 

Phelps,  Oil  fork 50  1866 

DAVIESS  COUNTY. 

LOG  No.  225. 

MACEO  WELL  (PARTIAL  RECORD). 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM  and 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 
Unrecorded. 

2300 

Black   shale   45  2345 

Dark  impure  limestone  255  2600 

Hard  black  shale  106  2706 

Gray  calcareous  shale  30  2736 

DEVONIAN   SYSTEM. 

Black   shale   474  2810 

Gray  limestone  15  2825 

Very  light  limestone  33  2858 

Gray  limestone  87  2945 

White  limestone  15  2960 

Gray  limestone  104  3064 

Yellow  limestone  81  3145 

Dark  gray  limestone  15  3160 

(Base  of  Devonian  indefinite.) 


*The  dates  and  depths  of  these  wells  are  not  vouched  for  bul 
are  given  as  commonly  reported. 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS  259 

LOG  No.  226. 

S.  T.  LOGSDON  FARM. 

Panther  Creek. 

strata                                                          Thickness  Depth 
PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Clay  28  28 

White   sand 2  30 

Blue  clay  110  140 

Coal    1  141 

Sand,  hard   9  150 

Black   shale   70  220 

Sand,  hard  10  230 

Slate   ...            85  315 

Sand   80  395 

Slate   80  475 

Sand   10  485 

Slate    70  555 

Red  rock  10  565 

Black  slate  55  620 

Sand   10  630 

Slate   ...                                      100  730 

Sand   20  750 

Sandy  shale  20  770 

Blue    slate    65  835 

White   slate   35  870 

Black  slate  20  890 

Sand   25  915 

Blue  slate  35  950 

Sandy  shale  10  960 

Slate  12  972 

Sand   8  980 

White  slate  20  1000 

Gray   slate   — .  8  1008 

Lime  22  1030 

White   slate   10  1040 

Sand   10  1050 

Blue  slate  65  1115 

Lime    85  1200 

Slate    50  1250 

Sand   25  1275 

Slate    155  1430 

Sand   30  1460 

Sand   ..  20  1480 


260  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES   OF  KENTUCKY 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Lime  90  1570 

Red  rock  30  1600 

Slate   60  1660 

Sand   50  1710 

Lime  30  1740 

Slate   10  1750 

Sand   12  1762 

Lime— Cased  at  1762  4  1766 

Sand   10  1776 

LOG.  No.  227.  O.  T.  GORE  FARM. 

li/6  miles  S.  E.  of  Utica. 

Strata                                                          Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil     30  30 

Shale  with  hreaks  57  87 

Sand    50  137 

Shale  with  breaks  423  560 

Slate     10  570 

Shale  with   breaks   70  640 

Sand     50  690 

Slate     6  696 

Sand   44  740 

Slate     23  763 

Sand   30  793 

Slate     11  804 

Sand   32  836 

Slate     32  868 

Sand   36  904 

Slate     25  929 

Sand 31  960 

Slate     18  978 

Sand   22  1000 

Slate     23  1023 

Sand   20  1043 

Slate     7  1050 

Sand     20  1070 

Slate     20  1090 

Sand   30  1120 

Slate 5  1125 

Sand   5  1130 

Sand     10  1140 

Sand   80  1220 

Slate  10  1230 

Sand   70  1300 

Slate  ...  10  1310 


RECORDS   OF  DRILLED  WELLS  261 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Red  Lime  10  1320 

White  lime  220  1540 

Sandy  lime  99  1639 

Sand     , 6  1645 

Lime     50  1695 

Sand     5  1700 

Lime  50  1750 

Sand     50  1800 

Lime     1020  2820 

Brown   sand  80  2900 

White   s'ate   20  2920 

Lime     60  2980 

White   slate   40  3020 

Brown  Sand  60  3080 

Lime     50  3130 

Sand  with  lime  shells  220  3350 

Lime     75  3425 

Sand     10  3435 

White  Lime  ...  35  3470 


EDMONSON  COUNTY. 

LOG.  No.  228. 

RHODA  WELL 
(Partial  record). 

Top  of  Devonian  shale  at 1020 

Base  of  Devonian  shale  at  1136 

Dark  and  gray  lime  1136  to  1210 

Gray  sand   (lime)— oil  1210  to  1228 

Dark  and  gray  lime  1228  to  1320 

Brown  lime— Gas  1320  to  1325 

Dark  brown  lime  1325  to  1370 

Dark  lime  or  shale  ...  1370  to  1407 


ELLIOTT  COUNTY. 

LOG.  No.  229. 

J.  F.  DIALS  FARM. 

Isonville. 
Strata  Thickness  Depth 

Quicksand     25  25 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Slate  115         140 

Sand  30         170 

Slate— Cased  at  180  10         180 

Dark  sand  ...  20         200 


262  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES   OF  KENTUCKY 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Slate 40  240 

White  lime— "Big  lime"— Gas  at  338  150  390 

Dark  sand  (Probably  Big  Injun) 15  405 

Slate  and  shell— Cased  at  560  225  630 

Lime     40  670 

Gray  sand— Gas  at  715  80  750 

Slate     20  770 

Sand   95  865 

Slate  and  shell  29  894 

DEVONIAN   SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  376  1270 

White   slate   77  1347 

Sandy  lime  35  1382 

Gas  at  1348 
Strong  gas  at  1366 

Bottom  of  well  at  1500 

LOG  No.  230.  JESS  PETERS  FARM. 

Strata                                                          Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil    19  19 

Slate    156  175 

Lime    25  200 

Sand    100  300 

Slate    10  310 

Sand    20  330 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Slate    38  368 

"Big  lime"  140  508 

Slate  207  715 

Lime    68  783 

Sand— Oil   show   .._ 53  836 

ESTILL  COUNTY. 

LOG  No.  231. 

WELL  AT  MOUTH  OF  RED  CREEK. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Clay 38  38 

DEVONIAN   SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  55  93 

Corniferous   lime   7  100 

Blue   shale   10  110 

Yellow  sandrock  (?)  40  150 

Soapstone    38  188 

Pink  shale   ...  22  210 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS  2« 

LOG  No.  232. 

TOM  WEST  FARM.     MILLERS  CREEK. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Clay    28  28 

Blue   shale   7  35 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale    ^                              58  93 

Brown  shale    I    (Devonian,        51  144 

White  shale   J                               2  146 

Brown  lime — Ragland  sand  4  150 

Lime    88  238 

Blue   shale   49  287 

Pink   shale   46  333 

Blue    shale   40  373 

Hard   shell   4  377 

Blue    shale   8  385 

Pink   shale   18  403 

Hard   shell   4  407 

Blue   shale   8  415 

Lime   shell   2  417 

Biue   shale   8  425 

Lime    3  428 

Blue   shale    2  430 

Red    rock    4  434 

Lime    4  438 

Blue    shale   5  443 

Lime    2  445 

Blue   shale   2  447 

Lime 18  465 

Gray    lime    18  483 

Blue   shale   12  495 

Lime :.  46  540 

Blue   shale   .'. 6  546 

Lime    59  605 

LOG  No.  234. 

ROLAND  ISAACS.     DRILLED  1918. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Clay  and  b!ack  soil  15  15 

Lime    141  156 

Blue    shale   ...                                                  .  456  612 


264 


OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES   OF  KENTUCKY 


DEVONIAN   SYSTEM. 

Black   shale   110 

Fire    clay    4 

Black  shale  hard  4 

Break   (blue  shale)   4 

Top  of  cap  

Cap    hard 1% 

Pay  good  oil  show  might  have  paid  with 

shot    4 

Pay  fair  oil  show  might  have  paid  with 

shot  1 

Rusty  lime  1 

Gray  lime  1 

Rusty  gray  lime  1 

Light  gray  lime  3 

Dark  gray  lime  1 

Light  gray  lime  1 

Dark  gray  lime  4 

Dark  gray   lime — Watery   3 

Dark   gray   lime 4 

Dark  brown  lime — Oil  production  20  brls  3% 

Dark  gray  lime  1 

Light  gray  lime  % 

Bottom    ..                                                764% 


722 
726 
730 
734 
734 
735% 

739% 

740% 
741% 


743% 

746% 

747% 

748% 

752% 

755% 

759% 

763 

764 

764% 

764% 


LOG  No.  235. 

ADAM  WALLING  WELL. 
Lucky  Star  Oil  Company.     White  Oak  Creek. 
Strata  Thickness 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil    19 

Shale    6 

Lime    20 

Blue  slate  25 

Lime    10 

Blue    slate    25 

Lime  shale  2 

Blue    slate    


DEVONIAN   SYSTEM. 

Black   shale 

"Fire  clay"   (White  shale) 

Irvine    sand    

Slate    

Lime    

Blue  slate— Cased  at  675... 

Lime    

Blue    slate    .. 


....  353 

....  103 
3 

....  35 

....  10 

....  10 

....  79 

....  10 

.  106 


Depth 

19 

25 

45 

70 

80 
105 
107 
460 

563 
566 
601 
611 
621 
700 
710 
816 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS 


265 


Red  slate  and  shells  19 

Hard   white  lime   10 

Lime  with  s'.ate  breaks  295 

Sandy    lime    10 

Soft  lime  and  shells  50 

Hard    lime    150 

Soft  lime  and  shells — Gas  at  1885 550 

Hard  lime  and  hard  shells  574 

Sand— Water  at  2533— Gas  at  2520 80 

Lime    16 

Sandy  lime — water  at  2600 40 

Lime    80 

Sandy  lime — water  rose  2100  feet 35 

Lime  5 


835 
845 
1140 
1150 
1200 
1350 
1900 
2474 
2554 
2570 
2610 
2690 
2725 
2730 


LOG  No.  236. 

COMBINED    SECTION    FROM    BOTTOM    OF  OLD    GAS   WELL   ON 
WHITE  OAK  CREEK  TO  TOP  OF  RIDGE. 

Strata                                                          Thickness  Depth 
PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Massive  sandstone  to  top  of  ridge....  •«  195  944 

Shales  and  shaly  sandstone 50  748 

Black  slate 5  4  698 

Coal .|  1  694 

Gray  shale £  4  693 

Coal £  1  689 

Shales ....:    ~  -15  688 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Buff,  earthy  limestone 8  673 

"Archimedes"  limestone  2  665 

Gray  limestone   13  663 

Calcareous    shale 10  650 

Oolitic   limestone   , 10  640 

Buff   limestone    11  630 

Oolitic   limestone   22  619 

Gray  limestone   12  597 

Earthy,  buff  limestone  5  585 

Gray,   cherty  limestone   24  580 

Massive  limestone  22  556 

Blue  limestone  and  shale  38  534 

Earthy,  yellow  limestone  6  496 

Sandstone  and  shales   (Waverly) 490  490 

Top  of  well  0 


266  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES   OF  KENTUCKY 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  125  125 

Lime— Ragland    sand    25  150 

SILURIAN  SYSTEM. 

Blue  and  gray  shales 145  295 

Gray  lime  30  325 

Gray  shale   10  335 

Gray  lime  8  343 

Red    lime    10  353 

Gray  lime  17  370 

Brown  lime   40  410 

ORDOVICIAN  SYSTEM. 

Gray  lime  839  1249 

Greenish-white   sandy   shale    (top   of 

Tyrone)    10  1259 

Hard  dove-colored  limestone 425  1684 

Hard   gray  limestone   145  1829 

White,  fine  grained,  sandy  lime 

(Calciferous)     15  1844 

Gas  in  Calciferous  at  about  1940. 

LOG  No.  237. 

BICKNELL  WELL. 
Locust  Branch  of  Red  Lick. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 
DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil    8  8 

Black  shale  103  111 

Corniferous   lime   8  119 

Shale    64  183 

Lime    6  189 

Shale    14  203 

Bottom  of  well  at 238 

LOG  No.  238. 

GENTRY  WELL. 
Locust  Branch  of  Red  Lick. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 
DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil    9                            9 

Black   shale   90                         99 

Blue   shale   99                       193 

Bottom  of  well  at — salt  water  268 

(Corniferous  missing) 


RECORDS   OF  DRILLED  WELLS 


267 


LOG  No.  239.  REAVES  WELL. 

Locust  Branch  of  Red  Lick. 

Strata                                                          Thickness  Depth 

DEVONIAN   SYSTEM. 

Soil    8  8 

Black   shale   , 54  62 

Corniferous   lime    8  70 

Blue    shale   64  134 

Lime    6  140 

Blue   shale   19  159 

Bottom  of  well  at  575 

LOG  No.  240.  DAN  MILLER  FARM— No.  5. 

Middle  Fork  of  Station  Camp  Creek. 

Strata                                                          Thickness  Depth 
MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil    22  22 

Light    shale    50  72 

DEVONIAN   SYSTEM. 

Black  shale     )                                                       98  170 

White   clay     \  (Devonian)          6  ^ 

"Cap  rock"  1  177 

"Oil    sand"— Oil    3  180 

LOG  No.  241. 

DAN  MILLER  FARM— No.  6. 

Strata                                                             Thickness  Depth 
MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil    14  14 

Light    shale 16  30 

DEVONIAN   SYSTEM. 

Black  shale     )                                            100  130 

White   clay     J  (Devonian)          7  13? 

"Cap  rock"  1  138 

"Oil  sand"— Oil  5  143 

LOG  No.  242. 

DAN  MILLER  FARM— No.  7. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil    25  25 

Light  shale 17  42 

DEVONIAN   SYSTEM. 

Black  shale    'j                               98  140 

White    clay     I  (Devonian)        8  148 

Black  shale    J                               2  150 

"Cap    rock"    1  151 

"Oil    sand"— Oil    ..                 3  154 


268       OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

LOG  No.  243. 

DAN  MILLER  FARM— No.   8. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Soil    14  14 

Light    shale    13  27 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale     }  100  127 

White  clay      (  (Devonian)         ?  m 

"Oil    sand"— Oil    ..  2  136 


LOG  No.  244. 

WM.  COX  FARM. 
Middle  Fork  of  Station  Camp  Creek. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 
MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil 8  8 

Blue    shale   84  92 

DEVONIAN   SYSTEM. 

Black  shale    ^                              102  194 

White    clay     I  (Devonian)        8  202 

Black  shale    J                               4  206 

"Oil    sand"    ..  19  .  225 


LOG  No.  245. 

CHARLES   COX  FARM— No.    6. 
Midd.e  Fork  of  Station  Camp  Creek. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil    10  10 

Light    shale 9  19 

Blue    shale    112  131 

Sand    11  142 

Blue   sha'.e   1 27  169 

DEVONIAN   SYSTEM. 

Black  shale     }  .     100  269 

White   clay     j  (Devonian)          g  m 

"Cap    rock"    1  278 

"Oil   sand    ..  3  281 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS  269 

LOG  No.  246. 

CHARLES  COX  FARM— No.  7. 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

Soil    20  20 

Light    shale    6  26 

Blue   shale   10  36 

Shell 2  38 

Sand    3  41 

Blue  shale  20  161 

DEVONIAN   SYSTEM. 

Black  shale     •>  103  164 

White  clay     \  (Devonian)          9  m 

"Cap    rock"    1  174 

"Oil  sand"  11  185 

LOG  No.  247. 

CHARLES  COX  FARM— No.  10. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSEPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Sand    25  25 

Blue   shale   65  90 

Shell    3  93 

Blue   shale   38  131 

Shell    2  133 

Sand    10  143 

Blue    shale   30  173 

Sand    8  181 

Soft   rock    18  199 

Blue   shale   45  244 

Shell    6  250 

Shale    20  270 

DEVONIAN   SYSTEM. 

Black  shale     )  101  371 

White  clay      ((Devonian)         ?  3?8 

"Cap    rock"    1  379 

"Oil    sand"    3  382 

LOG  No.  248. 

CHARLES  COX  FARM— No.  11. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Soil    10  10 

Blue    shale   70  80 

Shell    5  85 

Blue   shale  30  115 


270  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES   OF  KENTUCKY 

DEVONIAN   SYSTEM. 

Black  shale     ,  (Devonian)          100  215 

White  clay      J  8  223 

"Cap  rock"  2  225 

"Oil  sand" — Salt  water 

LOG  No.  249. 

CHARLES  COX  FARM— No.  12. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Sand    14  14 

Blue    shale    28  42 

Shell    7  49 

Blue    shale   40  89 

DEVONIAN   SYSTEM. 

Black  shale     )  102  191 

White  clay      }  (Devonian)          g  lgg 

"Cap    rock"    1  200 

"Oil   sand"    61  261 

LOG  No.  250. 

CHARLES  COX  FARM— No.  13. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Shale    57  57 

Shell    6  63 

Blue   shale   53  116 

Sand    5  121 

Blue  shale  95  216 

Sand  10  226 

Blue    shale    63  289 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale     3                                                   .     105  394 

White  clay      \  (Devonian)          g  4Q3 

"Cap    rock"    5  408 

"Oil   sand" — oil. 

LOG  No.  251. 

F.  J.  WAGES  FARM— No.   1. 

Station  Camp  Creek. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

DEVONIAN   SYSTEM. 

Sand   and  mud   - 26  26 

Black  slate  j  ^  59  85 

"Fire  clay"   (shale)       J  (Devonian)  g  9Q 

Lime — Oil  and  gas  3  93 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS 


271 


LOG  No.  252. 

F.  J.  WAGES— No.  2. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

DEVONIAN   SYSTEM. 

Sand   and   mud   27  27 

Black  slate  )  58  86 

"Fire  clay"  (shale)      J  (Devonian)   g  gl 

Lime — Oil  and  gas   3  94 

LOG  No.  253. 

F.  J.  WAGES— No.  3. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

DEVONIAN   SYSTEM. 

Sand   and  mud   21  21 

Black  slate                      )  62  83 

"Fire  clay"   (shale)      {  (Devonian) g  gg 

Lime— Salt    water    23  111 

LOG  No.  254. 

F.  J.  WAGES— No.  4. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Sand  and  mud  23  23 

Black  slate  )  61  84 

"Fire   clay"    (shale)      { (Devonian)  g  89 

Lime — Gas  show  and  water  3  92 

LOG  No.  255. 

F.  J.  WAGES— No.  6. 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Sand   and   mud   22  22 

Black  slate.  )  83  105 

"Fire  clay"   (shale)      { (Devonian) 4  1Q9 

Lime — Oil  and  gas  show.    Water  55  164 


LOG  No.  256.  CALLAHAN  FARM. 

Ross  Creek. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Sand    210  210 

Lime    168  378 

Sand  and  lime   (?)   200  678 

Soft  lime    (?)    225  803 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  )  (Devonian)  125  928 

"Fire  clay"  \  (White  shale)       12  940 

"Oil   sand"   10  950 


272  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES   OF  KENTUCKY 

LOG  No.  257. 

HARRIS  FARM— No.   1. 

Ross  Creek. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Soil    10  10 

Lime    165  175 

Sandy  shale  205  380 

Light   shale    207  587 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale     >  116  703 

White  shale    (Devonian)         g  m 

"Cap  rock"  1  712 

"Oil    sand"— Oil    ..  6  718 


LOG  No.  258. 

HARRIS  FARM— No.  2. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Soil    20                          20 

Lime    175  195 

Sandy  shale  210  405 

Light    shale    236  641 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale     )                               125  766 

White  shale    Devonian)         4  7?0 

"Cap    rock"    1  771 

"Oil    sand"— Oil    ..  17  788 


LOG  No.   259. 

A.   J.   RAWLINS    FARM— No.    15. 
Sweet  Lick  Creek. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 
MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Red  shale  10                        10 

Lime    50                         60 

Blue    shale   376                       436 

Sand    7                        443 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale     )                               114                       557 

White  clay      ((Devonian)          ?                       5g4 

"Oil    sand"— Oil    ..  24                       588 


RECORDS   OF  DRILLED  WELLS 


273 


LOG  No.  260. 

A.  J.   RAWLINS   FARM— No.   16. 
Strata  Thickness 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Soil    7 

Red  shale  18 

Light   shale   145 

Red    rock    8 

Blue   shale   ...  13 


DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 
Black  shale 
White  clay 
"Oil   sand"— Oil 


(Devonian) 


105 

8 

16 


Depth 

7 

25 
170 
178 
191 


296 
302 
318 


LOG  No.  261. 

A.  J.  RAWLINS  FARM  —No.  17. 
Strata  Thickness 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Soil    9 

Shale    ..  54 


DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale    ) 

White  clay     ((Devonian) 

"Cap  rock" 

"Oil    sand"— Oil    .. 


102 

7 

1 

21 


Depth 


63 


165 
172 
173 
194 


LOG  No.  262. 

A.  J.  RAWLINS  FARM— No.  18. 
Strata  Thickness 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Soil    18 

Clay    57 

Blue   shale   265 

Shells    ..  30 

Blue   shale   5 

Gray   shale   45 

Red    rock   10 

Gray  shale  9 


DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale    >                               104 

White  clay      ((Devonian)          ? 

Oil   sand— Oil   23 


Depth 

18 

75 
340 
370 
375 
420 
430 
439 


543 
550 
573 


274                 OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES   OF  KENTUCKY 

LOG  No.  263. 

A.  J.  RAWLINS  FARM— No.  19. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Soil    10                          10 

Blue   shale   44                         54 

Red    rock    6                         62 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale    )                               114  176 

White  clay      }  (Devonian)         g  m 

"Oil    sand"— Salt   water    38  217 

LOG  No.   264. 

A.  J.  RAWLINS  FARM— No.  20. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Soil ,. !«                          16 

Blue    shale   54                         70 

Shaly  sand  40     .  110 

Blue    shale   215  325 

Gray  shale  4  329 

Blue   shale   36  365 

Shells    15  380 

Blue   shale   25  405 

Red    rock    6  411 

Gray  shale   12  423 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

eimjs  jpeia         ?  /npvnnian^          106  529 

White  clay     J  (Devon             .   6  535 

"Oil    sand"— Oil 34  569 

FLOYD  COUNTY. 

LOG  No.  265. 

A.  S.   CRISP  WELL. 

Bucks  Branch. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIA!*  SYSTEM. 

Soil 15                          15 

Sandstone — gray    12                         27 

Slate— light    25                          52 

Coal 3                          55 

Sandstone — gray    8                          63 

Slate— light    18                          81 

Sandstone — gray    14                         95 

Slate— light    20  115 

Sandstone — gray    12  127 

Slate    ..  20  147 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS  275 

Coal    4  151 

Sandstone — gray    24  175 

Slate— black.     Cased   at   177   ft 75  250 

Sandstone — gray    58  308 

Slate— black    42  350 

Sandstone — white    18  368 

Slate— black    38  406 

Sandstone — gray    22  428 

Slate— black    ., 30  458 

Sandstone — gray    12  470 

Slate— black    37  507 

Sandstone— gray.     Salt  water  at  636 129  636 

Slate— black    6  642 

Sandstone — white    30  672 

Slate— light.     Cased  at  680   ft 12  684 

Sandstone — white    41  725 

Slate— black    28  753 

Sandstone — white    47  800 

Slate— black.     Cased   at   804   ft 5  805 

Sandstone — gray    20  825 

Slate — black    16  841 

Slate— yellow  26  867 

Sandstone — gray    38  905 

Shale— red— caving    18  923 

Slate— blue    7  930 

Shale— red    40  970 

Slate — black.     Cased   at   1003   ft 40  1010 

Sandstone — gray    12  1022 

Slate— light    19  1041 

Sandstone — gray   and    white    20  1061 

Well  is  entirely  in  Pottsville. 

LOG  No.  266. 

MOUTH  OF  MIDDLE  CREEK. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

Soil   Conductor   16 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Shale  94  110 

Coal    1  111 

"Sandy"  shale  139  250 

Coal    6  256 

Sand    86  342 

Shale    80  422 

"Beaver"    sand    128  550 

Black    slate    6  556 

"Horton"  sand,  salt  water  at  560  ft 80  636 

Sandy  shale  191  827 


276                 OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES   OF  KENTUCKY 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

"Maxon"    sand    80  907 

"Little"   lime   •- 24  931 

"Pencil    Cave"    2  933 

"Big  Lime,"  gas  6  5-8  casing  956  ft 113  1046 

"Big  Injun,"  small  amount  gas,  top 159  1205 

Lime   shells   185  1390 

"Weir"  sand,  gas  and  green  oil  from  1394  38  1428 

Oil  30.55  Baume.  Oil  stood  200  feet  high  in  well  day  after  drill- 
ing into  "Weir  Sand."  Log  from  A.  Fleming,  Manager,  T.  M.  King, 
Driller. 

LOG  No.  267.  WALLEN  FARM. 

Beaver  Creek  below  Salt  Lick. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil    ......  22  22 

Slate    18  40 

Coal    4                  .        44 

Black    s:ate    51  95 

Coal    4  99 

White    sand    28  127 

Black    slate    28  155 

Gray    sand    15  170 

Light  slate 17  187 

Coal    3  190 

Light  slate  20  210 

Sand    3  213 

Light  slate  85  298 

Sacfl    22  320 

Light  slate  5  325 

Sand    22  347 

Slate    183  530 

Dark   sand    5  535 

Black    slate    45  580 

White   sand    (Beaver)— Gas   124  704 

Light  s'ate  10  714 

White   sand    (Horton)    129  843 

Light  slate  5  848 

White    sand    (Pike)    67  915 

Coal    3  918 

Sand    35  953 

Dark   slate   5  958 

Dark    sand    19  977 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Black    slate    87  1064 

Sand    (Maxon)   Gas  49  1113 

Black    slate    ..  3  1116 


RECORDS   OP  DRILLED  WELLS 


277 


LOG  No.  268. 

WELL  AT  MOUTH  OF  SALT  LICK  OF  RIGHT  BEAVER. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

Soil    _ 34                         34 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black    slate    10                         44 

White    sand    50                         94 

Black    slate    30                       124 

Gray    sand    100                       224 

Light  slate  76                        300 

White    sand    20                       320 

Light    slate    130                        450 

White  sand   (Beaver) — Oil,  gas  and   salt 

water    212                       662 

Black    slate    30                       692 

White  sand  (Horton)— Salt  water  108                       800 

Coal    1                       801 

Sand    43                        844 

Black    slate    59                       903 

Sand   (Pike)— Gas  and  oil  93                      996 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black    slate    60"  1056 

Sand— Salt  water  50  1106 

Black    slate    11  1117 

Dark  lime  13  1130 

Slate  and  lime  shells  35  1165 

Lime   and    slate   8  1173 

Slate  and  lime  shells  '    19  1192 

Lime— "Big  lime"— Oil  and  gas  at  1269....  138  1330 

Red  shale  95  1425 

Slate  and  sand  shells   181  1606 

Black    slate    44  1650 

Light  blue  slate  and  sand  shells  130  1780 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black    slate    200  1980 

S  aty  lime— Gas   2  1982 

Black   slate— Gas   225  2207 

Soft  light  slate  33               .       2240 


LOG  No.  269. 


AKER  BRANCH  LEFT  BEAVER  CREEK. 


Strata 
Drift  10  in.  casing. 


Thickness 


Depth 
44 


OIL  AND  GAS   RESOURCES   OF  KENTUCKY 


PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM 

Slate    36  80 

Sandstone  20  100 

Slate    120  220 

Sandstone    35  255 

Slate    100  355         Cased  8%  at  260  ft. 

Sandstone    20  375 

Slate    125  500 

"Show   oil  and  gas  572. 

i  Show    gas     537—50,000 
Sandstone   ("Salt  Sand"). ...190          690     <  cu    ft 

[saltwater  filled  to  660. 

Slate    59  749         Cased  6%— 728. 

Sandstone    59          808 

Slate    10          818 

Sandstone    5          823 

Slate    12          835 

Sandstone    10  845 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM 

Red  rock  18          863 

Slate    38  901 

Sandstone   "Maxon"   thin....  51  952 

Limestone    6  958 

Slate    8          966 

Red  rock  99  1065 

Slate,  sandstone  and  shell..  15  1088 

Slate    30  1110 

Limestone    10  1120 

Slate    10  1130 

Dark  lime...  -77  1207          m,  25  000 

Sandstone,    "Bradley"   30  1237 

Part    limestone    33  1270 

White  lime,   "Big  Lime"....140  1410         Gas  at  1396- 

White  &  sandy  "Big  Lime"     5  1415 
White  limestone  "Big 

Lime"    19  1434 

Red   shale   50  1484 

S'ate    47  1531 

Slate  and  sand  234  1765 

Brown  shale  19  1784 

Sandstone  "Wier"  45  1829         show  of  "Amber"  oil  at 

Bran  slate  150  1979         1784  in  top. 

Berea    21  2000         Gas  1979-1994. 

Slate    2  2002         Total   depth. 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS  279 

LOG  No.  270. 

OTTER  CREEK  OF  LEFT  BEAVER 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

Quicksand  and  gravel  50  50 

I'ENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM 

Hard  white  sand  80  130 

Light    shale    5  135 

Sand,   hard  15  150 

Shale,   dark   20  170 

Sand,  white  and  hard  80  250 

Shale,  white  and  firm  70  320 

Sand,  white  and  hard  10  330 

Shale,   slow   drilling   55  385 

"Little   Dunkard,"    sand,   hard 45  430 

Sand,  white  and  hard  55  485 

Shale   and   shells   75  560 

"Big  Dunkard"  sand,  hard  50  610 

Shale  and   shells   125  735 

Gas  sand,  black  and  hard  65  800 

Shale  and  shells  55  855 

"Salt"  sand,  dark  and  hard  65  920 

Shale  and  shells  55  975 

Sand,   hard   160  1135 

Shale   and   shells   70  1205 

"Salt"  sand,  very  hard 445  1650 

Shale,   black  and  soft   10  1660 

Sand,  gritty  and  hard  15  1675 

Shale,   soft   31  1706 

Sand,  very  hard  : 40  1746 

Shale  and  shells   59  1805 

Sand,  hard  and  white  10  1815 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM 

Slate,  very  soft  7  1822 

"Maxon"  sand,  very  hard  63  1885 

Shale,  very  soft  8  1893 

"Maxon"  sand,  very  hard  47  1940 

Slate    30  1970 

Lime    (cored   3   ft.) 14  1984 

"Pencil  Cave"  shale,  very  soft  6  1990 

Shale    69  2059 

"Big   Lime"    (oil    2222-28) 232  2291 

Sand,  hard  (gas  at  2296)  •-  7  2298 

Shale    42  2340 

"Big  Injun"  Red  Sand  30  2370 

"Big  Injun,"  dark,  hard  sand    (block  oil 

2376)     10  2380 

Lime  and  shells  ...  82  2462 


280                OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

Sand,  soft  29                    2491 

Shale    142                     2633 

Brown    shale    73                     2706 

"Berea"  shell  and  sand,  very  hard  4                     2710 

Shale    29                     2739 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM 

Black  shale  and  shells    (gas  production 

2109)    70                      2809 

Black   shale   187                     2996 

Sand    5                     3001 

Shale    99                     3100 

10  in.  casing,  371. 

8%  in.  case  872. 

6%  in.  case,  1983. 

Hole  full  of  water  at  70. 

%  bailer  of  water  at  875  per  hour. 

4  bailer  of  water  at  1848  per  hour. 

4  bailer  of  water  at  1982  per  hour. 

LOG  No.  271. 

W.  S.  HARKINS  FARM. 
Trimble  Branch. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

Alluvial  Quick  sand  40                         40 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM 

Conglomerate  shale,  sand  and  lime 408                       448 

Top  salt  sand   (gas  450) 5                       453 

Shale    35                       498 

Sand  (water  670)  197                       685 

Lime    35                        720 

Sand,  whte,  settling  30                       750 

Slate    50                       800 

'    Sand  (oil  and  gas  800  to  812)  40                       840 

Shale,  blue  79                       919 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM 

"Maxon"  sand  65                       984 

"Little   Lime"    20                     1004 

"Pencil  Cave"  3                      1007 

"Big    Lime"    160                      1167 

Shells,  sand  and  shale  257                     1424 

Brown  shale   40                     1464 

"Berea"  sand,    (first)    oil  1467-1480 40                     1504 

Shale,    black    3                     1507 

"Berea"    sand    ..  40                     1547 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS  281 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM 

Shale,    black    148  1695 

Shale,  brown  '. 20  1715 

Sand,  Gray  5  1720 

Shale,    black 1750 

Bottom  of  ho'.e  1750 

Casing  put  in  12%,  40  feet. 

Casing  put  in  8*4,  115  feet. 

Casing  put  in  6%,  1017  feet. 

Shot  well  from  1467  to  1482  feet  with  60  qts.  nitro-glycerine. 

Shot  cleaned  well.    Well  filled  up  about  90  ft.  within  forty  minutes 

after  shot. 

Contractor — King  Drilling  Co.,  Huntington,  W.  Va. 

LOG  No.  272.  ISAAC  BRADLEY  FARM. 

1%  Miles  up  Right  Beaver  Creek. 
Strata  Feet          Feet 

Drift,  10"  Casing  0  to         22 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Sandstone,  white  25  "         47 

Slate,  black  35  "         82 

Coal    5  "          87 

Sandstone,  white  60  "       147 

Slate,  black  53  "       200 

Coal    6  "        206 

Slate,  black 44  "       250 

Sandstone,  dark  gray  36  "       286 

Slate,  cased  8%"  at  278' 3  "       289 

Sandstone,  gray  27  "       316 

Slate  and  shells  125  "        441 

Sandstone,  white.     Salt  water  510' 180  "       621 

Slate    5  "       626 

Sandstone.     Gas  show  at  630' 14  "       640 

Slate,  Shelly  from  645  to  648' 29  "        669 

Sandstone,  white  46  "        715 

Slate,  Shelly  15  "       730 

Sandstone,  white  55  "       785 

Slate  5  "       790 

Sandstone,  white;  oil  and  gas  show  792' 20  "       810 

Sandstone,  very  dark  10  "       820 

Slate,  black  30  "       850 

Sandstone,  gray;  oil  show  872' 27  "        877 

Sandstone,  mainly  white;  gas  show  910'  cased 
1st  time  at  943';  salt  water  flooded  at  943'; 
casing  pulled  and  reamed  from  943  to  947 
(case  6%"  top  Maxon  sand  which  should  be 

1097  in  this  well)   138  "      1015 


L82  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES   OF  KENTUCKY 

Slate,  black,  cased  6%"  at  1018 26  "      1041 

Sandstone,    gray 14  "      1055 

Slate,  dark  42  "     1097 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Maxon  Sand,  Sandstone,  white,   %   million  feet 

gas  at  1131';  oil  show  at  1200';  salt  water  4 

Bailers  at  1220'  143  "      1240 

Slate,  black  12  "      1252 

Sandstone,  dark  gray  10  "      1262 

Slate,  black  8  "      1270 

Limestone    28  "      1298 

Slate,  black  15  "     1313 

Sandstone,  "Keener"  first  6  ft.,  brown,  with  oil 

production;  balance  light  gray 30  "      1343 

Slate  6  "      1349 

Slate,  limy  6  "      1355 

Big  Lime,  Limestone 38  "     1393 

Big  Lime,  Sandstone  4  "      1397 

Big  Lime,  Limestone  30  "      1427 

Big  Lime,  Limestone,  Sandy,  gas  at  1429'  small 

amount  2  "      1429 

Big  Lime,  Limestone 75  "      1504 

Red  Shale  3  "      1507 

Limestone    4  "      1511 

Sandstone,  Limy 4  "     1515 

Slate  4  "      1519 

Red  shale  10  "     1529 

Slate,  sandy 2  "     1531 

Red    Shale   20  "     1551 

Slate,  sandy  2  "     1553 

Red  shale,  slaty  7  "     1560 

Slate,  sandy  3  "     1563 

Red  shale  22  "      1585 

Slate,  black 81  "     1666 

Stopped  in  black  slate  at  1666  ft. 
Berea  should  be  at  2080. 

LOG  No.  273. 

JACK  ALLEN  FARM. 

Mouth  of  Salt  Lick. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil   38  44 

Coal    2  40 

Gray  sand  50  90 

Slate  75  165 

Gray   sand   ..  50  215 


RECORDS   OF  DRILLED  WELLS 

Slate  15  230 

Gray  sand  18  248 

Black  slate  32  280 

Gray   sand   30  310 

Dark  slate   120  430 

Sand  (Beaver)  Gas  60  490 

Black  slate  (Beaver)  8  498 

Sand  (Beaver)  170  668 

Coal 1  669 

Slate  34  703 

White  sand  (Horton)  98  801 

Coal    1  802 

Gray  sand  4  806 

Black  slate  15  821 

Gray  sand  29  850 

Dark  slate  69  919 

Sand  (Pike)  41  960 

Slate    (Pike)    19  979 

Sand    (Pike)    19  998 

Slate  2  1000 

(Well  all  in  Pottsville). 


JACK  ALLEN  FARM. 
Right  Beaver  near  Salt  Lick. 

-, 

LOG  No.  274. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil 29  29 

Sand  26  55 

Slate  35  90 

Sand  12  102 

Slate    55  157 

Gray    sand    „ 44  201 

Light  slate  15  216 

Blue  sand  5  221 

Black  slate  22  243 

Dark  gray  sand  12  255 

Light  slate  35  290 

Black  sand  3  293 

Light  slate  47  340 

Gray  sand  18  358 

Black   slate   10  368 

Black  sand  19  387 

Light  slate  27  414 

Sand   (Beaver)   Gas  and  salt  water 238  652 


284  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES   OF  KENTUCKY 

Coal    2  654 

White   sand   8  662 

Dark  slate 22  684 

White  sand  (Horton)  114  798 

Black    slate    5  803 

Gray  and  black  sand  44  847 

Black  slate  53  900 

Light    sand    11  911 

Light  slate  3  914 

Dark  gray  sand  2  916 

Black  slate  8  924 

Sand  (Pike)   Oil  28  952 

(Well  is  all  in  Pottsville). 

LOG  No.  275. 

E.   S.   FRAZIER  GAS  WELL  No.   1. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

Drift  0                          37 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Sandstone  20                         57 

Slate  154  211 

Sandstone,  gray  20  231 

Coal    4  235 

Slate,  black  (Cased  8%"  at  249') 125  360 

"Beaver"  sand,  gray   (little  gas  at  560) 

Salt  water,  half  enough  for  drill  at 

640'  320  680 

Sandstone,  black  21  701 

Sandstone,  gray  (little  gas  and  salt  water 

enough  to  drill  at  755') 101  802 

Slate,  black  36  838 

Sandstone,  light  colored  (little  gas  at  844' 

salt  water  flooded  at  900',  gas  to  flow 

Salt  water  at  926') 193  1031 

Slate,  black  (cased  6%"  at  1038') 21  1052 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Red    shale    54  1106 

"Maxon"  sand,  white  (little  gas  at  1165' 

S.  W.  for  drill  at  1204',  little  gas  1255' 

little  S.  W.  1260') 161  1267 

"Little"  lime,  black  21  1288 

"Big"  Lime,  white  (gas  production  1360' 

to  1366',  Oil  show  1431') 149  1437 

Limestone,  blue,   hard 47  1484 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS  285 

"Sunberry"    red    shale,    sandy    (stopped 

drilling  in  this,  January  26,  1907) 82  1566 

Slate  and  shells  279  1845 

Brown   shale   84  1938 

"Wier"   sand   18  1956 

Light  slate  (break)  6  1962 

"Berea"  sand,  lime  shell 18  1980 

Light  slate  180  2160 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Shale  and  dark  slate  365  2525 

Light  slate  165  2690 

Shale,  black  • 34  2724 

"Corniferous" — "Ragland    Sand" — Lime...  30  2754 

Note — First,  drilling  finished  January  26,  1907  at  1566  feet.  Well 
tubed,  packed  and  shut  in,  on  2"  tubing,  March  12,  1907.  Bottom  of 
packer  set  at  1328  ft.  2".  Cage  on  bottom  of  packer,  and  328  feet  of 
Anchor  under  packer.  All  casing  left  in  well.  Pressure  gauge  of  well 
taken  on  March  13,  1907. 

30  seconds  55 

1  minute  85 

ll/2  minute  120 

2  minutes 150 

2%  minutes  185 

3  minutes 210 

3l/2  minutes  235 

4  minutes 260 

41/2  minutes  280 

12%  minutes 435 

Second,  drilling  started  fall  of  1915  and  completed  to  total  depth 
of  2754  feet. 

Author's  Geological  Note. — This  well  located  in  Syncline. 

LOG  No.  276. 

JACK  ALLEN  FARM. 
Salt  Lick  of  Right  Beaver. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil    43                          43 

Black  slate  48                         91 

Gray  sand  27  118 

Light    slate    53  171 

Light  sand  47  218 

Dark    slate    5  223 

Dark   sand 35  258 

Dark  slate  ....  60  318 


286  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES   OF  KENTUCKY 

Gray   sand   23  341 

Light  slate  40  381 

Light  sand  15  396 

Dark   slate   42  438 

White   sand    (Beaver)    pebbly.     Gas  and 

salt  water  232  670 

Dark    slate    24  694 

White  sand   (Horton)  145  839 

Black  sand  20  859 

Shelly  slate  20  879 

Black  slate  50  929 

White  sand  (Pike)  gas  77  1006 

Slate  8  1014 

(All  Pottsville). 


LOG  No.  277. 

JACK  ALLEN  FARM. 
Motts  branch  of  Salt  Lick. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

Soil    22  22 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Gray   sand   , 38  60 

Slate  15  75 

Gray  sand  39  114 

Slate 71  185 

Gray  sand  51  236 

Slate -15  251 

Gray  sand  20  271 

Slate    69  340 

Gray  sand  15  355 

Slate    105  460 

Sand  (Beaver)  Gas  269  729 

Coal    1  730 

Dark  slate  14  744 

White  sand  (Horton)  96  840 

Coal 1  841 

Gray  sand  (Pike)  29  870 

Dark  slate   (Pike)   6  876 

White  sand   (Pike)   10  886 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Dark  slate 97  983 

Sand  (Maxon)  Gas  and  salt  water 133  1116 

Lime  ....  9  1125 


RECORDS   OP  DRILLED  WELLS  287 

LOG  No.  278.  WYLIE   SLONE  FARM. 

Buckeye  of  Left  Middle  Creek. 

Strata  Feet                   Feet 

Alluvial    (quicksand)    25 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

12i/2   in.  casing  25 

Fire  clay  and  blue  shale  30           to           55 

Coal    h 5           to           60 

Conglomerate   (Shale,  sand  and  shells)....  410           to         470 

Beaver  sand— White  and  hard 180                       650 

Water   at   590 

Slate,  black 15                        665 

Sand,    white    60                        725 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Shale    104                        829 

Maxon  sand  85                       914 

Slate,  blue  6                       920 

Sand,  white   (show  oil  930) 32                        952 

Lime,  black,  sandy  24                        976 

Big  lime,  white  and  hard 165                      1141 

Gas   1041 

Gas  (94560  cu.  ft.) 1096 

A  little  oil  with  gas. 

Bastard  lime,  dark,  gritty  99                      1240 

Big  Indian  sand,  red  25                      1265 

Shale  and  shells,  gray  and  brown 185                     1450 

Gas  sand,  limey,  hard  70                     1520 

Shale,  brown,  soft 145                      1685 

Finished  in  shale  at  1685 

Bridge  set  for  plug  at  100  in  line. 

Plug,  broken  stone  and  sand 30 

Male  and  female  wood  plug 7 

Broken  stone  and  sand 30 


Gas  at  1041 

Water   at   590 

12^  in.  casing  25 

8%  in.  casing  185 

6%  in.  casing  1006 

Hole  plugged,  casing  pulled  and  abandoned. 

Length  of  plug 67  feet. 

Casing  put  in,  12  V2  in 25  feet. 

Casing  put  in,  8%  in.  _ 185  feet  pulled  185 

Casing  put  in,   6%   in 1006  feet  pulled 

Well  plugged  and  abandoned. 

Authority,  King  Drilling  Company,  Contractors. 


288                 OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES   OF  KENTUCKY 

LOG  No.  279.  JOS.  GEARHART  FARM. 

Salt  Lick  of  Right  Beaver. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

Soil  27  27 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Gray  sand  37  64 

Coal    1  65 

Black  slate  15  80 

White  sand  70  150 

Black  slate  50  200 

Gray  sand  50  250 

Dark  lime  (?)  10  260 

Gray  sand— Gas  50  310 

Slate— Gas    163  473 

Gray  sand  47  520 

Light  slate  38  558 

White  sand  (Beaver)   156  714 

Sandy  lime  (?)  5  719 

Gray  sand   (Horton)   126  845 

Black  shale  1  846 

Dark  lime  (?)   5  851 

Sand   (Pike)   54  905 

Shelly  slate  (Pike)  .....  5  910 

Sand  (Pike)   Gas  18  928 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  slate 52  980 

Sand  (Maxon)  Gas,  oil  and  salt  water 178  1158 

Black  lime  5  1163 

Blue  slate  2  1165 

Red  shale  5  1170 

Dark  lime  2  1172 

LOG  No.  280.  R.  ALLEN  FARM. 

Right  Beaver  Creek. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

Drift  '. 34  34 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Slate    11  45 

Gray  sand  15  60 

Slate 55  115 

Gray  sand  34  149 

Slate  9  158 

Gray  sand  _ 32  190 

Black  slate  24  214 

Gray  sand  16  230 

Black  slate  ....  4  234 


RECORDS   OF  DRILLED  WELLS  2? 

Gray   sand   11  245 

Black    slate    35  280 

Coal 2  282 

Black   slate    38  320 

Gray   sand    68  388 

Black  slate 27  415 

Gray  sand  20  435 

Black  slate  41  476 

Gray  sand  54  530 

Black  slate 38  568 

Coal 2  570 

Black  slate  60  630 

Sand  (Beaver) — Salt  water 198  828. 

Coal    1  829 

Dark  slate 40  869 

Sand   (Horton)    115  984 

Dark  slate 24  1008 

Dark   sand   8  1016 

Dark  slate 40  1056 

Sand  (Pike)  98  1154 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Dark  slate   32  1186 

Sand  (Maxon) — Gas,  oil  and  salt  water....  50  1236 

LOG  No.  281. 

A.   B.  ERODE  &  COMPANY  FARM. 

Right  Beaver  Creek. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

Drift  10"  casing  27%  27% 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Slate  and  shells  360 

Sand  ,   40  400 

Gas  400 

Hole  full  of  water  at 800 

Slate  40  840 

Sandy  shale  40  880 

Slate  10  890 

Sandy  shale  25  215 

Slate  5  920 

Sand,  white  30  950 

Slate  10  960 

Black  sandy  shale 55  1015 

Dark  slate 10  1025 

Black  sand  5  1030 

White  sand  5  1035 

Slate  10  1045 

Oil  &  Gas— 10 


290 


OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 


MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  sandy  shale  5                      1050 

White  sand,  "Maxon"  1050 

Oil  showed  1060 

Gas  at  1064 

Break  1071V& 

6%"  Casing  106iy2 

8*4"  Casing  133 

LUG  NO.  282. 

WELL  AT  GARRETT. 

(Partial  Record.) 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Drift   27                          27 

Slate  and  shells  333                       360 

Sand  and   gas   400 

Missing    840 

Sandy   shale   40                        880 

Slate    10                        890 

Sandy   shale   25                        915 

Slate     5                        920 

White  sand  30                        950 

Slate    10                        960 

Black  sandy  shale  55                      1015 

Dark    slate    , 10                     1025 

Black   sand   5                     1030 

White    sand    5                     1035 

MTSSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Slate    10                      1045 

Black  sandy  lime  5                      1050 

Sand— oil   show  at  1060  21                      1071 

LOG  NO.  283. 

GEORGE  ALLEN  FARM. 

Right  Be^-er. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

Soil   23                          23 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Slate    17                         40 

Coal    i 2                          42 

Gray    sand    38                          80 

Slate    50                       130 

Gray  sand   22                        152 

Slate    107                        259 

Gray  sand  ...  61                       320 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS  291 

Slate    80  400 

Sand    52  452 

Slate    90  542 

White  sand    (Beaver)    132  674 

Slate    7  681 

Sand   (Horton) — Gas  and  salt  water 236  917 

Black    slate   75  992 

Sand    9  1001 

Black  slate  7  1008 

White  sand  (Pike)— Oil  70  1078 

Slate     y2 

Sand   14%  1093 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Slate 47  1140 

Sand   (Maxon) 

LOG  No.  284.  STEELE  CREEK. 

Right  Beaver  Creek. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

Drift   (10"  casing)   0  15 

PENNSYLVANIAN    SYSTEM 

Limestone  25  40 

Shells  and  slate  35  75 

Sandstone  25  100 

Black  slate  (8"  casing)  50  150 

White   sand   58  208 

Black  slate  12  220 

Limestone  61  280 

Slate  and  shell  40  320 

Limestone  30  350 

Brown   shale   15  365 

Gray  slate  37  402 

Black  slate  8  410 

Limestone  60  470 

White  sand  5  475 

Limy   sand   20  500 

Sandstone  10  510 

Limestone  72  582 

Sandstone  116  698 

Slate  5  703 

Black  lime  15  718 

Sandy  lime  5  723 

Sandstone  (salt  water  735)  87  810 

Dark  sand  - 10  820 

Black  slate  15  825 

Gray  sand  ...                                    18  843 


292     ;  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM 

Black  slate  _ 21  864 

White  sand  "Maxon"  gas  at  892 26  890 

White  sand  (2,00000  cu.  ft.)  951 

Not  shot. 

860  3"  tubing  on  packer  in  6"  hole. 
Drilled  for  A.  B.  Erode  &  Son. 
S.  L.  Anderson,  Driller. 


LOG  No.  285. 

GEORGE  ALLEN  FARM. 
Right  Beaver. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

Drift  18                          18 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Gray  sand  42                         60 

Coal 2                         62 

Gray  sand  80  142 

Black  slate  81  223 

Coal    3                       225 

Gray  sand  32                       257 

Black  slate 81                       338 

Sandy  slate 69                       407 

Gray   sand   30                       437 

Black  slate  14                       451 

Gray  sand  36                       487 

Coal 10                        497 

Gray  sand  6                       503 

Dark   slate  39                        542 

Gray   sand    50                        592 

Dark  slate 41                        633 

Gray  sand  14                       647 

Slate  170                       817 

Sand  (Beaver  and  Horton) — Gas  and  salt 

water ; 367  1184 

Slate 6  1190 

Gray  sand  12  1202 

Dark  slate  60  1262 

Light  sand  (Pike)— Gas  and  oil 39  1301 

Dark  slate  (Pike)   5  1306 

White  sand  (Pike)— Oil  show 68  1374 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  slate 40  1414 

White  sand  (Maxon)— Gas 28  1442 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS  293 

LOG  No.  286. 

GEORGE  ALLEN  FARM. 

Right  Beaver. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

FENNSYLVANIAN   SYSTEM. 

Soil    46  46 

Black  slate  14  60 

Gray   sand   18  78 

Slate  and  shells 90  168 

Coal 2  170 

Gray  sand — Gas 97  267 

Slate  and  shells  126  393 

Sand  (Beaver  and  Horton) — Gas  and  salt 

water 412  805 

Coal 1  806 

Slaty  lime  4  810 

Dark  sand  17  827 

Black  slate— Gas 47  874 

Sand  (Pike) — Gas,  oil  and  salt  water 120  994 

Black   slate   6  1000 

(All  Pottsville). 

LOG  No.  287. 

RIGHT  BEAVER  CREEK. 

Strata  Thickness    Depth 

Drift    0  45         8&  casing. 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM 

Slate    85  130 

Sandstone,  gray  31  161        Gas  140  exhausted. 

Slate    50  211 

Sandstone,  gray  12  223 

Slate    53  276 

Sandstone,  gray  19  295         Casing  6*4-280. 

Slate    74  369 

Sandstone,   white   166  535         (Salt  Sand.) 

Slate    8  543 

Sandstone,  white  205  748         Saltwater  flooded  655. 

Coal     2  750 

Sandstone,  gray  18  768 

Slate,   dark   28  796         Cased  5  to  770. 

Slate,  yellow,  caving  5  801 

Sandstone  (gas  810-827)  ....  56  857 

Slate,  'black,  caving  13  870 

Sa,ndstone,  white  15  885 

Total   ..  885 


294  OIL  AND  GAS   RESOURCES   OF  KENTUCKY 

LOG  NO.  288. 

GEORGE  ALLEN  FARM. 

Right  Beaver. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

Drift    30  30 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Slate    12  42 

Coal    4  46 

Slate    18  64 

Gray  sand  16  80 

Slate    23  103 

Gray    sand    25  128 

Dark    slate 25  153 

Light    sand    22  175 

Dark   slate   6  181 

Coal    3  184 

Dark   slate   73  257 

Light  sand  36  293 

Slate    203  496 

Sand     (Beaver)     246  742 

Light    slate    6  748 

White    sand    (Horton) 165  913 

Coal    1  914 

Dark   slate   5  919 

Gray    sand    8  927 

Dark   slate    58  985 

Sand    (Pike)— Gas  and  oil  29  1014 

Dark   slate   4  1018 

Gray    sand    13  1031 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Dark    slate    4  1035 

Gray    sand    10  1045 

Slate   and   red   rock   8  1053 

Sand   (Maxon)   Gas  and  salt  water 31  1084 

Black    slate    45  1129 

Sand    50  1179 

LOG   No.   289. 

NEWT.  ALLEN  FARM. 
Right  Beaver  above  Wilson  Creek. 

Strata                                                               Thickness  Depth 
PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil    ; 45  45 

Slate    35  80 

Gray    sand — Gas    81  161 

Slate    ., 50  211 

Gray    sand    12  223 


RECORDS   OF  DRILLED  WELLS  295 

Slate    53  276 

Gray   sand   19  295 

Slate    74  369 

White    sand    (Beaver)    166  535 

Slate    8  543 

White  sand   (Horton) — Salt  water  205  748 

Coal    2  750 

Gray    sand 18  768 

Dark   slate   28  796 

Yellow    slate    5  801 

Sand     (Pike)— Gas    56  857 

Black    slate    13  870 

Whito   sand   15  885 

(All  Pottsville). 


LOG  No.  290. 

RIGHT  BEAVER  CREEK. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

Drift,  10  ft.  casing  42 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Sand    20                          62 

Slate    98                       160 

Sand 40                       200 

Slate  and  shells   (292  feet) 200                       400 

Sand    (8  in.  casing)    230                       630 

"Salt"  sand  75                       715 

Break    65  780 

Slate    54                       834 

Sand   and    slate 14                       848 

Sandy    shale    12                       860 

Broken   up    55                       915 

White   sand,   oil  at  940 29                       944 

Slate  (955  ft.  6  5-8),  oil  at  978 56                       990 

Dark  shale   (casing)   10  1000 

Broken   up    50  1050 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Dark  shale   (water)   6  1056 

Slate    20  1076  . 

Sand  "Maxon,"  hole  full  1146  ft 84  1160 

Break   '. 1  1161 

Dark  sandy  lime  21  1182 

Slate    3  1185 

White  sandy  lime  20  1205 

Break    ..                                             1  1206 


296       OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

Sand 25  1231 

Big  lime  (dark)  26  1257 

Big  lime  (light),  oil  at  1271 101  1358 

Red  limestone,  oil  at  1293 1  1359 

Big  lime,  oil  at  1311  45  1404 

Red  rock  13  1417 

Big  Injun,  oil  at  1482  83  1500 

Big  Injun— gas  6  1506 

Slate  and  shell  54  1560 

Shot  with  65  Ib.  of  65  per  cent,  gelatin. 

1237  feet  4  7-8  inch  casing. 

1240  feet  2  inch  tubing  on  Disk  Wall  Packer. 

Drilled  for  A.  B.  Erode  and  Son. 

S.  L.  Anderson — Driller. 


LOG  No.  291. 

MARY   ESTEP   FARM. 
Right  Beaver. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 
PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil    _ 58  58 

Slate 40  98 

Sand    21  119 

Slate 81  200 

Sand    29  229 

Slate    10  239 

Sand    14  253 

Slate    69  322 

Sand    _....+ 20  342 

Slate    98  440 

Sand— Gas    118  558 

Slate     (Beaver)        2  560 

Sand — Salt    water    112  672 

Slate    30  702 

Sand    (Horton)— Gas  and  salt  water 67  769 

Slate    19  788 

Shelly    slate    52  840 

Sand   (Pike)— Gas  and  oil  140  980 

Slate    14  994 

Light    sand    26  1020 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Slate 23  1043 

Sand   (Maxon)— oil  and  salt  water 56  1099 


RECORDS   OF  DRILLED  WELLS  297 

LOG  No.  292.  MARY  ESTEP  FARM. 

Right  Beaver. 

Strata                                                             Thickness  Depth 

Soil    37  37 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Slate    123  160 

Sand    102  262 

Dark  slate  173  435 

Sand     (Beaver)    246  681 

Coal    2  683 

Gray    sand    8  691 

Slate    25  716 

Sand     (Horton)    159  875 

Dark   slate   45  920 

White  sand          .                            Oil 44  964 

Slate  and  shells  l(Pike)                    19  983 

White   sand          J                          Gas 43  1026 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Dark  slate   18  1044 

White  sand    (Maxon)— Oil   26  1070 

LOG  No.  293. 

HOWARD   BR.   OF  ROCK  FORK  OF  RIGHT   BEAVER. 

Strata                                                             Thickness  Depth 

Soil  and  Gravel  15 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Sand    (water)    30  45 

Slate    50  95 

Black  sand   (water)   60  155 

Slate    40  195 

Sand    (water)    20  215 

Slate    60  275 

Lime  and   sand   shells  145  410 

Sand    , 40  450 

Slate    55  509 

Sand    15  520 

Slate    _...  10  530 

Salt   sand    220  750 

Gas  at  650. 

Gas  at  690 

Water  at  730-745. 

Slate  and  lime  shells  35  785 

Sand,   white   48  833 

Dark    lime    12  845 

White   sand    41  886 

Coal    1  887 

Dark    sand    7  894 

Gray    sand    - 13  907 


298  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES   OF  KENTUCKY 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black   shale   11  918 

White  sand   (Maxon)  21  939 

Oil  show  937. 

Black  oil  show. 
Total   depth   939 


LOG  No.  294. 

JOHN  MARTIN  FARM. 
Right  Beaver. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

Soil    25                          25 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Slate 25                         50 

Coal    3                         53 

Slate    17                         70 

S|and    51  121 

Slate    _ 34  155 

Sand    55  210 

Slate   2  212 

Sand    29;  241 

Slate    194  435 

Sand     (Beaver) — Gas 219  654 

Coal    2  656 

Slate    29  685 

Sand    (Horton)    105  790 

Slate    3  793 

Sand    31  824 

Slate    3  827 

Sand    35  862 

Slate    35  897 

Sand    (Pike)— Oil    56  953 

Slate    34  987 

Sand    10  997 

Slate    5  1002 

Sand 18  1020 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Slate    29  1049 

Sand    (Maxon)    67  1116 


RECORDS   OF  DRILLED  WELLS  2! 

LOG   No.    295.  JOHN  MARTIN  FARM. 

Right  Beaver. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

Soil    40                          40 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Dark   sand    15                         55 

Coal    5                         60 

Black    slate    35                         95 

Gray    sand    15  110 

White   slate   67  177 

White   sand    27  204 

Black    slate    8  212 

Gray    sand    43  255 

Black    slate    571  312 

Dark    sand    20  332 

Black    slate    107  439 

Gray  sand   (Beaver)   231  670 

Black    slate    6  676 

White    sand    6  682 

Black    slate    30  712 

White  sand"!                salt  water 137  849 

Dark   sand   f(Horton)                   10  859 

Gray   sand  J                                  23  882 

Black    slate    30  912 

Gray  sand       -^                          Oil 84  996 

White   slate     I  (Pike)                  4  1000 

White    sand    J                          Oil 36  1036 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black    slate    8  1044 

White    sand     (Maxon)— Oil 43  1087 


LOG    No.    296. 

STEELE    CREEK,    RIGHT   BEAVER   CREEK. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

Drift,  10  in.  casing  16 

PENNSYLVANIAN   SYSTEM. 

Shale    24  40 

Shale,   hard    35  75 

Sandstone    2^  100 

Black    shale    60  160 

Sand,    white    '. 48  208 

Black    slate    12  220 

Shale,  8  in.  casing  60  280 

Black   slate   and   shell   40  320 

Shale    ..  30  350 


300  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OP  KENTUCKY 

Brown  shale  and  shell  15  365 

Gray  shale   37  402 

Black  slate    (gas)    8  410 

Shale,   salt,    sand . 65  475 

Shale    5  480 

Shaly  sanl 20  500 

Sand   (Oil  at  505)   10  510 

Shale  and   sand   72  582 

Sand    (Gas) 116  698 

Slate 5  703 

Black    shale    15  718 

•     Sandy    shale    5  723 

Sand    (salt    water    735    feet,    17    bailers, 

hole  full  of  water  at  760  ft.) 97  810 

Black  sandy  slate  15  825 

Gray    sand 18  843 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Slate    „ '...._ 18  861 

Black   shale   11  872 

White  sand— Gas  881  "Maxon"  11  883 

White    shale    5  888 

White  sand— gas,  800,000  cu.  ft.  "Maxon"  20  908 

Not  shot 

825  feet  2  in.  tubing  on  packer  in  8  in.  hole. 

Drilled  for  A.  B.  Erode  &  Son. 

S.  L.  Anderson,  Driller. 

Lyndon  Erode,  Field  Manager. 


LOG   No.   297. 

JOHN  MARTIN  FARM. 
Right  Beaver. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil    22                          22 

Gray    sand    18                          40 

Slate    160  200 

Gray    sand 30  230 

Slate    238  468 

Gray    sand    . 65  533 

Black    slate 8  541 

Sand    (Beaver) '. ! 122  663 

Dark    slate 5  668 

Gray    sand    13  681 

Dark    slate    . 49  730 

Sand    (Horton)    ........                                   .  120  850 


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Dark   slate    7  857, 

Gray    sand    20  877 

Dark   slate   30  907 

White    sand    20  927 

Dark   slate   and   shells   24  951 

Gray  and  white  sand — Oil  16  967 

Black    sandy    slate    9  976 

Light    sand    9  985 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Shelly    slate    15  1000 

Black  and  red  shales  13  1013 

Gray    sand— Gas    12  1025 

Black    slate 40  1065 

Gray    sand — Gas   18  1083 

Black    slate    8  1091 

White  sand  (Maxon),  gas  and  salt  water  51  1142 


LOG  No.  298. 

JOHN  MARTIN  FARM. 
Right  Beaver. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 
PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil    - 21  21 

Sand 19  40 

Coal    3  43 

White  slate  57  100 

Coal    5  105 

Sand    30  135 

Slate    - 60  195 

Sand    15  210 

Slate    95  305 

White   sand    85  390 

Slate    204  594 

Sand    (Beaver)    246  840 

Black   shale   10  850 

Sand    (Horton)    190  1040 

Slate 15  1055 

Sand    (Pike)    60  1115 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Slate    20  1135 

Shale 80  1215 

Sand   (Maxon)— Oil  and   salt  water  52  1267 


302       OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

LOG  No.  299. 

OSBORN   BR.   OF  LEFT   BEAVER  CREEK. 

Strata  Feel        Feet 

Drift  (10  inch  casing  43  ft.)  35 

PENNSYLVANIAN    SYSTEM. 

Sandstone,   gray  15     "       50 

Slate    and    sand    shells    115    "      165 

Sandstone,    gray    20    "      185 

Shale   and    sand   shells   87    "     272 

Sandstone,    white    42    "     314 

Shale,  dark  (Cased  8*4  at  320  ft.)  12    "      326 

Limestone    (?)    white    18    "     344 

Sandstone,    gray    56    "     400 

Slate  and  sand  shells  125    "      525 

Shale,    brown    10    "      535 

Sandstone,    white    50    "     585 

Shale,    black    15    "      600 

Sandstone,    white    162    "     762 

Limestone  (?)     32    "      794 

Sandstone  (show  of  oil  >at  804  ft.,  salt  water  at 

819  and  840  ft.  could  not  bail  down) 55    "     849 

Shale    1   "     850 

Sandstone,    white    10    "     860 

Sand  and  lime  shells  (cased  6  5-8  in.  at  872  ft. 

pulled  out  and  set  at  lower  depth) 15    "      875 

Sandstone,    white    25    "      900 

Shale,    blue,    soft   35    "      935 

Shale   and   sand   shells   49    "      984 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Red  rock  50  "  1034 

Shale  and  sand  shells  65  "  1099 

Limestone  (?)  white,  sandy  16  "  1121 

Sandstone,  dark  gray  (salt  water  1139  ft.  filled 

up  700  ft.  in  hole  in  6  hours) 18  "  1139 

Sandstone,  white  76  "  1215 

Shale  and  lime  shells  (cased  6  5-8  in.  at  1230  ft.)  17  "  1232 

Limestone,  dark  .., 8  "  1240 

Sandstone,  light  colored  40  "  1280 

Limestone,  dark  30  "  1310 

Shale  2  *  1312 

Limestone,  white  "Big  Lime"  (gas  at  1417  ft. 

Est.  50,000  cu.  ft.  per  24  hrs.). 160  "  1472 

(Drilled  to  2151  feet.) 


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LOG   No.   300. 


DAN  HOWARD  FARM. 
Right  Beaver. 


Strata  Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil    20  20 

Slate    ., 6  26 

Gray    sand    12  38 

Sandy   slate   : 27  65 

Light    sand    33  78 

Light    slate    67  165 

Gray    sand    43  208 

Light    slate    22  230 

White    sand    20  250 

Black    slate    50  300 

White    sand    40  340 

Black    slate    60  400 

Sand    (Beaver) — Gas  and  salt  water  268  668 

Dark   slate   26  694 

Sand    (Horton)    146  840 

Slate   and    sand    shells    18  858 

Black  slate — Oil  show  33  891 

Sand   (Pike) — Oil  and  salt  water 79  970 

(All  Pottsville). 


LOG  No.  301. 


DAN  HOWARD  FARM. 
Right  Beaver. 


Strata 

Soil    ,. 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Gray  sand  

Dark    slate    .. 


Thickness 
52 


Gray    sand    14 


Dark   slate    

Gray    sand    

Dark   slate    

White  sand   (Beaver)— Gas 
Dark   slate    ... 


72 

45 

212 

231 

40 

White  sand  (Horton)— Salt  water  107 

Coal    •. 

Gray  and  white  sand  

Dark   slate   ... 


1 

14 

4 

Black    sand    ..                                  15 


B'ack    s'ate    

Sand  (Pike)— Gas  and  oil 
(All  Pottsville). 


Depth 
52 

67 

79 

93 
165 
210 
422 
653 
693 
800 
801 
815 
819 
834 
880 
939 


304  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES   OF  KENTUCKY 

LOG  No.  302.  WELL  AT  HOWARD'S  STORE. 

Right  Beaver. 

Strata                                                          Thickness  Depth 

Soil    31  31 

PENNSYLVANIA^  SYSTEM. 

Gray  sand  50  81 

Dark   slate   60  141 

Gray   sand    13  154 

Dark   slate   74  228 

Gray    sand    43  271 

Dark   slate   216  487 

White  sand    (Beaver) — Gas  171  658 

Dark  slate   2  660 

Sand   (Horton  and  Pike?)— Salt  water....     234  894 

Coal    1  895 

Gray    sand    20  915 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Dark  slate   20  935 

Sand  (Maxon)— Gas  and  oil  107  1042 

LOG  No.  303.  TUCKER  ALLEN  FARM. 

Right  Beaver  above  Goose  Creek. 


Strata 

Thickness 

Depth 

Soil    

43 

43 

PENNSYLVANIAN   SYSTEM. 

Gray    sand    

15 

58 

Gray   slate    

41 

99 

Gray    sand    

56 

155 

Gray   slate   

107 

262 

Gray    sand    

40 

302 

Gray   slate 

78 

380 

Gray    sand  —  Gas    

58 

438 

Dark   slate   

42 

480 

White    sand    (Beaver)    

168 

648 

Dark   slate    

32 

680 

White    sand    (Horton)    

94 

774 

Dark   slate   

41 

815 

Gray    sand    

10 

825 

Black  slate  

10 

835 

Black  and  gray  sands  

4 

839 

Yellow   slate   

6 

845 

Sand  (Pike)—  Oil  and  gas  

92 

937 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Dark   slate   

10 

947 

White   sand    (Maxon)—  Salt  water 

28 

975 

Dark   slate 

30 

1005 

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LOG  No.  304.  WEBB  FARM. 

Henry  Branch  of  Right  Beaver. 

Strata  Thickness          Depth 

Soil    27                         27 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Dark   slate  6                        33 

White   sand   45                        78 

Light    shale    72  150 

Gray    sand    59  209 

Dark   slate   17  226 

Gray    sand    25  251 

Dark   slate   21  272 

Gray   sand    ~ 18  290 

Dark   slate   160  450 

White   sand    (Beaver)    60  510 

Dark   slate   7  517 

White  sand   (Horton)  103  620 

Dark   s'.ate 8  628 

White   sand    20  648 

Dark   slate 24  672 

White  sand   (Pike)   78  750 

Black    slate    12  762 

White   sand    (Salt   sand)— Gas   95  857 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Dark   slate   15  872 

Red  shale 76  948 

Slate  and  shells  177  1125 

Limestone — "Big    lime"   195  1320 

Red  shale  35  1355 

Shelly    slate    205  1560 

Black  slate  76  1636 

Dark   sand    90  1726 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Brown   slate    (Devonian)    204  1930 

LOG  No.  305.  T.  G.  ALLEN  FARM. 

Right  Beaver. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

Soil    24                         24 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Slate    92  116 

Sand    10  126 

Slate    : 6  132 

Sand    10  142 

Slate    35  177 

Sand   15  192 

Slate   23  215 

Sand    10  225 

Slate    ..                                                 5                       230 


306  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES   OF  KENTUCKY 

Sand    46                       276 

Slate    11                       287 

Sand    28                        315 

Slate    54                        369 

B.ack    sand    12                       381 

S'.ate    129                        510 

White  sand                                    15                       525 

Black  slate     >    (Beaver)             5                       630 

White  sand   J             Salt  water 215                       745 

Coal   4                       749 

Black  slate  3                       752 

Gray    sand    21                       773 

Slate    9                       782 

White  sand   (Horton)   95                       877 

Black  slate  20                       897 

Sand    (Pike?)    50                       947 

Slate 98  1045 

White    sand    10  1055 

White    slate    15  1070 

Sand    30  1100 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Slate    75  1175 

Sand  (Maxon)— Oil  show  32  1207 

LOG  No.  306  T.  G.  ALLEN  FARM. 

Right  Beaver. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

Soil    42                          42 

PENNSYLVANIAN   SYSTEM. 

Slate    7                         49 

Sand    50                         99 

Slate    83                       182 

Sand    68                        250 

Slate   90                        340 

Sand    20                        360 

Slate    100                        460 

Sand                                                  178                        638 

Slate      1    (Beaver)                       5                       643 

Sand      J                                         183                       826 

Coal    2                        828 

White    sand    20                        848 

Slate    5                        853 

Sand    (Horton)    55                        908 

Slate    46                        954 

Sand    (Pike)— Salt    water    82  1036 

Slate    5  1041 

Sand  10  1051 


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MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

White  shale  40  1091 

Sand   (Maxon)— Oil  show  at  1092  19  1110 

Slate    6  1116 

Sand  (Maxon)   32  1148 

Slate    32  1180 

Lime— "Big   lime"    210  1390 

Slate    50  1440 

Red  sand  47  1487 

LOG  No.  307. 

NATHAN  ESTEP  FARM. 

Right  Beaver. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

Soil    35  35 

PENNSYLVANIAN   SYSTEM. 

White    sand    15  50 

Black    slate    40  90 

Dark   sand    6  96 

Black  slate  86  182 

Black    sand    30  212 

Biack    slate    10  222 

Gray  sand  25  247 

Black    slate    85  332 

Sand  30  362 

Slate  60  422 

White  sand   (Beaver)   275  697 

Slate  35  732 

Sand  3  735 

Slate  10  745 

Sand    (Horton)    150  895 

Slate 20  915 

Sand    (Pike)    61  976 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Slate  86  1062 

White  sand    (Maxon)— Oil   show 55  1117 

LOG  No.  308. 

W.  N.  MARTIN  FARM. 

Right  Beaver. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

Soil  38  38 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Dark  sand  12  50 

Coal    4  54 

White  slate  43  97 

Gray   sand   13  110 


308                 OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

Black    slate 76  186 

Dark  sand  38  224 

White  slate 10  234 

White  sand— Gas 20  254 

Dark  slate   : 56  310 

Slate  and  shale  „ ...........: :.......  4  314 

White  sand— Gas  22  336 

Black   slate   ; 76  412 

White  sand — Gas 20  432 

White   slate   13  445 

White  sand  (Beaver  ?)— Gas  218  663 

Black    slate    5  668 

Black  sand  5  673 

Slate  and  shale  40  713 

White  sand— Salt  water 32  745 

Black   slate    80  825 

Sand     :..;.:..:....;... ..: 30  855 

Black   slate   30  885 

White    sand-Gas 11  896 

White  slate  : .. 8  904 

White   sand   16  920 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  slate  106  1026 

White   sand    ...  57  1083 


LOG  No.  309. 

ADAM  MARTIN  FARM. 
Right  Beaver. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil 51  51 

White  slate 25  76 

Sand    114  190 

Slate  25  215 

Dark   sand   15  230 

Red  rock  28  258 

Black    slate    5  263 

Gray  sand   (Beaver)   193  456 

White   sand  '  (Horton)— Salt  water 384  840 

Black  slate  10  850 

Sand  25  875 

White   slate  15  890 

Sand  10  900 

Slate 30  930 

Sand  ...  20  950 


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MISSISSIPPI^   SYSTEM. 

White  slate  35  985 

Sand  202  1187 

Black   slate    12  1199 

Lime— "Big  lime"— Gas  at  1350 211  1410 

Red   sand   90  1500 

Gray  sand  10  1510 

Brown  shale— Gas  20  1530 

White   slate   955  2485 

Hard  lime  16  2501 

LOG  No.  310.  GUFFEY  WELL. 

Right  Beaver. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

Soil  45  45 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black    slate    5  50 

Coal 2  52 

Gray  sand  38  90 

Black  slate  69  159 

Gray  sand  104  263 

Light  slate  41  304 

Gray  sand  27  331 

Light  slate  122  453 

Gray    sand    30  483 

Dark  slate   21  504 

White  sand  (Beaver)  174  678 

Coal  and  lime  shell  2  680 

Slate  34  714 

Sand    (Horton)    116  830 

Coal    1  831 

Gray    sand    18  849 

Black    slate    3  852 

Black  sand  29  881 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black   slate    80  961 

White  sand— Gas  39  1000 

LOG  No.  311.  DAVID  HAYS  FARM. 

Right  Beaver. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

Soil  31  31 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Sand  15  46 

Slate  22  68 

Sand  12  80 

Slate  ...  75  155 


310                 OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

Sand  36  191 

Slate  9  200 

Sand  30  230 

Slate  206  436 

Sand    (Beaver)    154  590 

Slate  5  595 

Sand  85  680 

Slate  4  684 

Sand    (Horton)— Salt  water 301  985 

Slate  5  990 

Shelly  sand 50  1040 

Slate  64  1104 

Sand  (Pike) — Oil  show  and  salt  water....  44  1148 
MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Slate  3  1151 

Sand  (Maxon) — Salt  water  26  1177 

LOG  No.  312. 

SUSANNA  GEARHART  FARM. 

Right  Beaver. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil    38                          38 

Slate  3                          41 

Gray    sand    15                          56 

Slate  19                          75 

Gray  lime  (?)  8                          83 

Black    slate    22  105 

Gray    sand    15  120 

Lime    (?)    10  130 

Black  slate  45  175 

Gray    sand    100  275 

Slate  194  469 

Sand  (Beaver) — Oil,  gas  and  salt  water..  123  592 

Black    slate    12         •  604 

White  sand  (Horton)   191  795 

Coal 1  796 

Gray  lime  (?)  12  808 

Gray    sand    40  848 

Black    slate    55  903 

White  sand  (Pike)— Gas 90  993 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Slate  and  shells  20  1013 

Reddish    sand    40  1053 

Dark  slate   2  1055 

White  sand   (Salt  sand)— Salt  water 45  1100 

Lime    ..  2  1013 


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LOG  No.  313.  MARION  RICE  FARM. 

Prater  Fork. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

Soil  23  23 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Light  slate  18  41 

Dark   slate  20  61 

Black  slate  25  86 

Dark  slate   22  108 

Coal    4  112 

Dark  slate  70  182 

Gray    sand    4  186 

Slate  19  205 

Dark   sand   5  210 

Black  slate  26  236 

Light  slate  8  244 

Gray    sand    43  287 

Dark  slate   43  330 

Gray  sand  58  388 

Black  slate  68  456 

Gray  sand  (Beaver)  115  571 

Black  slate 18  589 

Gray  sand       ^          12  601 

White  sand      I  o           Salt  water 34  635 

Gray    sand       f?            1 97  732 

White  sand     JS          41  773 

Black  slate  14  787 

Brown  slate  4  791 

Sand  (Pike)  • 76  867 

Black  slate  7  874 

Gray  sand — Stray  or  salt - 40  914 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  slate  78  992 

Gray  sand,  Maxon 28  1020 

Lime  6  1026 

Red    shale    17  1043 

LOG  No.  314.        JAMES  PRATER  FARM. 

Head  of  Prater  Fork  of  Brush  Creek. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

Soil  46  46 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Gray    sand    20  66 

Light  slate  46  112 

Gray   sand   41  153 

Light    slate    87  240 

Gray   sand    30  270 


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Coal    1  271 

Light  slate  299  570 

Sand  (Beaver) — Gas  190  760 

Slate  4  764 

Sand   (Horton)    61  825 

Coal 3  828 

Sand  30  858 

Coal    2  860 

Sand  26  886 

Coal    1  887 

Slate  6  893 

Sandy  slate  22  915 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Yellow   slate   6  921 

Red    shale    10  931 

Sand  (Maxon) — Gas,  oil  and  salt  water....  228  1159 

LOG  No.  315. 

HEAD  OF  PRATER  FORK  OF  BRUSH  CREEK. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

Soil  : 46                         46 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Light  slate  35                         81 

Gray  sand  10                          91 

Light  slate  42  133 

Gray  sand  30  163 

Light  slate  8  171 

Gray  sand  „ 62  233 

Light  slate  .". 30  263 

Gray  sand  14  277 

Light  slate  76  353 

Gray  sand  20  373 

Dark  slate   34  407 

Gray  sand  9  416 

Light  slate  27  443 

Gray  sand  55  498 

Light  slate  99  597 

Gray  sand  6  603 

Slate    4  607 

White  sand          -j                                        ....  145  752 

Coal                                                                   ....  1  753 

Light  gray  sand  f (Beaver  and  Horton)....  65  818 

Coal                                                                   ....  1  819 

Light  gray  sand,  Pike   109  928 

Slate  2  930 

Dark   sand   ..  10  940 


RECORDS  OP  DRILLED  WELLS 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  slate  6 

Sand  (Maxon) — Gas,  oil  and  salt  water....  150 

Black   slate   35 

Sand  ...  5 


313 


946 
1096 
1131 
1136 


LOG  No.  316. 


JAMES  HICKS  FARM. 
Head  of  Brush  Creek. 


Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

Soil  18  IS 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Slate  21  39 

Gray  sand  v 2  41 

Slate  15  56 

Gray  sand  18  74 

Slate  26  100 

Gray  sand  10  110 

Slate  25  135 

Gray  sand  112  247 

Slate  153  400 

Gray    sand    12  412 

Slate  38  450 

Gray  sand  25  475 

Sandy  slate 73  548 

Sand— gas               V                      82  630 

Dark    slate              (.  (Beaver)      5  635 

White  sand— gas    )                       54  689 

Dark  slate   3  692 

White  sand— salt  water  "}          : 127  819 

Coal  and  slate                     l(Horton) 2  821 

White  sand  83  904 

Coal    1  905 

Gray  sand  7  912 

Dark  slate  38  950 

White  sand    (Pike)— Gas   69  1019 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. . 

Dark  slate 30  1039 

Sand   (Maxou)— Oil  and  salt  water 115  1164 


314                 OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES   OF  KENTUCKY 

LOG  No.  317. 

ESTHER  HORTON  FARM. 
Rock  Creek. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

Soil  20                          20 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Slate  24                          44 

Sand  19                          63 

Slate  57  120 

Sand  20  140 

Slate  55  195 

Sand  12  207 

Slate  23  230 

Sand  20  250 

Shelly  slate  200  450 

White   sand    (Beaver)— Gas 145  595 

Slate  2  597 

Sand   (Horton)    92  689 

Coal 1  690 

Black  slate 28  718 

Coal    2  720 

Black   slate 6  726 

Sand    (Pike)— Gas  109  835 

Black  slate  12  847 

Gray  sand — Oil  and  gas  show 11  858 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  slate  6  864 

White  sand   (Maxon)— Oil  ...  23  887 


LOG  No.  318. 

WELL  ONE  MILE  ABOVE  MOUTH  OF  COW  CREEK. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 
PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil  40  40 

Sand  and  slate 160  200 

Slate  300  500 

White  sand  (Beaver) — Salt  water 245  745 

Coal    5  750 

Slate  110  860 

White   sand    (Horton)— Gas 25  885 

Slate  and  shells  20  905 

Slate  10  915 

White  sand  (Pike)— Salt  water 27  942 

(All  Pottsville.) 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS 


315 


LOG  No.  319.  JOHN  BURCHETT  FARM. 

3  miles  up  Cow  Creek. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

Soil  22                          22 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Slate  48                         70 

Coal 3                          73 

Slate  77  150 

Sand  30  180 

Slate  45  225 

Sand  30  255 

Slate  50  305 

Sand  5  310 

Slate    115  425 

Sand  40  465 

Slate    78  543 

Sand  (Beaver  and  Horton)  287  830 

Black  slate  27  857 

Sand  (Pike)  61  918 

Shelly  slate  20  938 

M1SSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Slate  42  980 

White  sand   (Maxon)— Salt  water 23  1003 

LOG  No.  320.  G.  T.  KENDRICK  FARM. 

Head  of  Cow  Creek. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

Soil  33                          33 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black   slate   30                         63 

Gray  sand  9                          72 

Dark  slate  75  147 

Gray  sand  32  179 

Dark   slate   60  239 

Gray   sand   42  281 

Dark  slate 19  300 

Gray   sand   20  320 

Dark  slate   20  340 

Gray   sand    37  377 

Dark   slate  20  397 

Gray   sand    •- 30  427 

Dark  slate  20  447 

Gray  sand  32  479 

Dark  slate   171  650 

Coal    2  652 

Sand  10  662 

Black  slate  ...                                           5  667 


316  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

Sand   (Beaver)    53  720 

Black  slate  12  732 

White  sand  (Horton)  108  840 

Coal 1  841 

Sand  65  906 

Black  slate  10  916 

Sand    (Pike)    107  1023 

Dark  slate   40  1063 

Sand  (Salt  sand)  65  1128 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Dark  slate   5  1133 

Dark  sand  10  1143 

Slate  and  red  shale  120  1263 

Gray   sand 8  1271 

Slate  62  1333 

Sand  and  lime 40  1373 

Dark  slate  10  1383 

Sand  and  slate  10  1393 

Dark  slate  17  1410 

LOG  No.  321.  MORGAN  WHITTAKER  WELL, 

GILL  OIL  CO. 

Middle  Creek,  %  mile  S.  W.  of  Prestonsburg. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

Soil  61  61 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

White  sandstone 5  66 

Light  slate  34  100 

Gray  sandstone  4  104 

Light  slate  36  140 

Gray   sandstone   50  190 

Black  slate  5  195 

Gray   sandstone    65  260 

Light  slate— Cased  at  265'  121  381 

White   sandstone   175  556 

Coal    4  560 

Gray  sandstone  15  575 

Dark  slate 15  590 

White  sandstone 114  704 

Black  slate— Cased  at  709'  8  712 

Dark   sandstone   12  724 

White  sandstone — Salt  water  at  735' 15  739 

Black   sandstone — Gas   and   oil   show   at 

763'   25  764 

Black  slate  25  789 

White  sandstone — Gas  and  salt  water  at 

810'  ...  62  651 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS  317 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  limestone  25  876 

White  limestone  39  915 

Top  of  well  is  72  feet  below  the  Van  Lear  coal. 
Drilled  by  L.  H.  Gormley. 

LOG  No.  322. 

MOUTH  OF  PITTS  FORK  OF  MIDDLE  CREEK. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

Soil  32  32 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Light  slate  5  37 

Dark   sand   8  45 

Dark  slate   5  50 

Coal 2  52 

Dark  slate 20  72 

Gray  sand  55  127 

Dark  slate  30  157 

Gray  sand  20  177 

Dark  slate 65  242 

Gray  sand  50  292 

Black  slate  5  297 

Gray  sand 20  317 

Black  slate 63  380 

Gray  sand  15  395 

Black  slate  95  490 

Sand   (Beaver)— Oil  and  salt  water 282  772 

Dark  slate  2  774 

White  sand  (Horton)  30  804 

Coal 3  807 

Gray  sand  11  818 

Dark  slate  22  840 

White    sand    (Pike) — Gas,    oil    and    salt 

water   233  1073 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  slate  15  1088 

LOG  No.  323. 

REFITT  FARM. 
Pitts  Fork  of  Middle  Creek. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

Soil  22  22 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Light  slate  28  50 

Gray  sand  20  70 

Black  slate  30  100 

White  sand 70  170 

Black  slate  ...                                             8  178 


318  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES   OP  KENTUCKY 

Gray  sand  82  260 

Black  slate  65  325 

White  sand  58  383 

Light  slate  17  400 

Gray  sand  28  428 

Dark  slate 22  450 

Gray   sand   18  468 

Black  slate  .. 78  546 

White  sand „ 10  556 

Black  slate  8  564 

Very  dark  slate  35  599 

White  sand  16  615 

Dark  slate  49  664 

White  sand    (Beaver)— Salt  water 142  806 

Black   slate   5  811 

Sand   (Horton) — Salt  water 59  870 

Black  slate ! 17  887 

Black  sand  8  895 

Black  slate  25  920 

Sand — Pebbly   at   base    (Pike) — Gas,    oil 

and  salt  water  235  1155 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  slate  16  1171 

Limestone— "Big  lime"   201  1372 

Red  shale  38  1410 

Black  shale  85  1495 

White  and  shelly  slate  100  1595 

Dark  slate  95  1690 

White  and  shelly  slate 70  1760 

Brown  slate    I  96  1856 

White  slate  12  1868 

Brown  slate       (Devonian)          26g  2136 

Black  slate     J  Gas 15  2151 

LOG  No.  324. 

GREEN  PITTS  FARM. 

Head  of  Pitts  Fork  of  Middle  Creek. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

Soil  22  22 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Slate  80  102 

Sand  30  132 

Black  slate  37  169 

Sand  38  207 

Slate  ...  5  212 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS  319 

Sand    37  249 

Shelly  slate  48  297 

Sand  26  323 

Slate  77  400 

White  sand  64  464 

Slate  189  653 

White  sand  (Beaver)   118  771 

Slate  3  774 

White  sand  (Horton) — Gas  and  salt  water  221  995 

Very  dark  sand  5  1000 

White  sand  (Pike)  156  1156 

Dark  gray  sand — Gas  10  1166 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Slate  '. 18  1184 

White  sand  (Maxon)  ...  46  1230 


LOG  No.  325. 

JOSEPH  GRAY  FARM. 
Left  Fork  of  Bull  Creek. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

Soil 8  8 

PENNSYLVANIA^  SYSTEM. 

Gray  sand  37  45 

Light  slate  95  140 

Gray  sand  38  178 

Shelly  slate  77  255 

Gray  sand  105  360 

Dark  slate 91  451 

Gray  sand  20  471 

Dark  slate   30  501 

White  sand  (Beaver) — Gas  and  salt  water     194  695 

Dark   slate  13  708 

Coal    2  710 

White  sand  (Horton)  74  784 

Coal    1  785 

Gray  sand  35  820 

Sand    (Pike)— Salt  water 80  900 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Red  shale  35  935 

Gray  sand   (Maxon)  7  942 

Red  shale  20  962 

White  sand  (Maxon  sand  ?)— Salt  water  68  1030 


320  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

LOG  No.  326. 

JOHN  GRAY  FARM. 
Head  of  Bull  Creek. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

Gravel 14  14 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Sand  and  shale  26  40 

Coal 4  44 

Shale  and  shells  266  310 

Sand  90  400 

Shale  and  shells  100  500 

Sand  (Beaver) — Gas  at  610.    Water  at  625  200  700 

Shale 22  722 

Coal :. 2  724 

Sand— Water  at  756 72  796 

Slate  and  shell  50  846 

Sand  74  920 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Red  shale  30  950 

Gray  shale 41  991 

Sand   (Maxon)   93  1084 

"Little  lime"  24  1108 

"Pencil  Cave"  15  1123 

"Big  lime"— Oil  show  at  1190 162  1285 

Sand  (Big  Injun)— Gas  at  1300 40  1325 

Lime  shells 268  1593 

Brown  shale  (Sunbury  ?)  20  1613 

Lime— Oil  show  at  1628 80  1693 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  and  shells  (Devonian) 135  1828 

Gray   slate   15  1843 

Shells  and  shale  576  2419 

Flinty   lime    19  2440 

LOG  No.  327. 

R.  S.  ELLIOTT  FARM. 
Head  of  Big  Mud  Creek. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

Soil  31  31 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Slate  50  81 

Blue  sand  76  157 

Dark   slate  81  238 

Gray  sand 64  302 

Dark  slate   98  400 

Dark  sand 15  415 

Dark   slate   ...  12  427 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS  321 

Gray  sand  23  450 

Dark  slate   186  636 

White  sand 28  664 

Slate  20  684 

White   sand   291  975 

Dark  slate  75  1050 

White  sand 50  1100 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Dark   slate  23  1123 

White  sand — Oil  and  salt  water 352  1475 

Gray   sand    83  1558 

Slate  8  1566 

Red    slate   24  1590 

Sand— Oil   show   141  1731 

Black    slate    ...  30  1761 


LOG  No.  328. 

RIGHT  BEAVER  CREEK 
Keystone  Gas  Co.,  J.  N.  Allen  No.  1. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

Drift,  8^4"  casing  0                         45 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Slate  85  130 

Sandstone,  gray,  gas  140  exhausted 31  161 

Slate    50  211 

Sandstone,  gray  12  223 

Slate  53  276 

Casing  6%   280 

Sandstone,  gray  19  295 

Slate  74  369 

"Beaver"  Sandstone,  white  166  535 

Slate  8  543 

Salt  water  flooded   655 

Sandstone,  white  205  748 

Coal    2  750 

Sandstone,  gray  18  768 

Slate,  dark,  cased  5  to  770 28  796 

Slate,  yellow,  caving  5  801 

Sandstone,  (Pike)  Gas  810-827  56  857 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Slate,  black,  caving  13  870 

Sandstone,  white 15  885 

Total  depth  885 

Oil  &  Gas— 11 


S22  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

LOG  No.  329. 

STEELE   CREEK,   RIGHT   BEAVER   CREEK. 
Pennagrade  Oil  &  Gas  Co.,  T.  A.  Martin  No.  2. 

Strata                                                               Thickness  Depth 

Drift  (10"  casing) 0  15 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Limestone    25  40 

Shells  and  slate  35  75 

Sandstone  25  100 

Black  slate  (No.  8  casing)  50  150 

White  sand  58  208 

Black  slate  12  220 

Limestone  61  280 

Slate  and  shell  40  320 

Limestone    30  350 

Brown  shale  15  365 

Gray  slate   37  402 

Black  slate  8  410 

Limestone  60  470 

White   sand   5  475 

Limey  sand  20  500 

Sandstone  10  510 

Limestone  72  582 

Sandstone  116  698 

Slate    5  703 

Black  shale  15  718 

Sandy  shale  5  723 

Sandstone  (Salt  water  735)   87  810 

Dark   sand   10  820 

Black  slate 15  825 

Gray  sand 18  843 

Black  slate  21  864 

White  sand,  "Pike,"  Gas  at  892 26  890 

White  sand,  2,000,000  cu.  ft 951 

Well  not  shot. 

860  3"  tubing  on  Packer  in  6"  hole. 

A.  B.  Erode  &  Son,  contractors. 


RECORDS  OP  DRILLED  WELLS  323 

LOG  No.  330 

RIGHT  BEAVER  CREEK. 
Pennagrade  Oil  &  Gas  Company.     Nathaniel  Estep  No.  1. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 
PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Drift,  10"  casing  0  42 

Sand    20  62 

Slate    98  160 

Sand  40  200 

Slate  and  shells  (292  feet) 200  400 

Sand   (8"  casing)   230  630 

"Salt"  Sand  (Gas  500,000  cu.  ft.) 75  715 

Break  65  780 

Slate    54  834 

Sand  and  slate  14  848 

Sandy  slate 12  860 

Broken  up    55  915 

White  sand,  oil  at  940  29  944 

Slate  (955  ft.  6%),  oil  at  978 56  990 

Dark  shale  (casing)  10  1000 

Broken   up   50  1050 

Dark  shale  (water)   6  1056 

Slate    20  1076 

Sand  "Maxon,"  hole  full  1146  ft 84  1160 

Break  1  1161 

Dark  sandy  lime  21  1182 

Slate    3  1185 

White  sandy  lime 20  1205 

Break  1  1206 

Sand— "Bradley"    25  1231 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

"Big  Lime"   (dark)   26  1257 

"Big  Lime"  (light,  oil  at  1271) 1  1358 

Red  Limestone,  oil  at  1293  101  1359 

Big  Lime,  oil  at  1311  45  1404 

Red    Rock 13  1417 

"Big  Injun,"  oil  at  1482 83  1500 

"Big   Injun,"   gas   6  1506 

Slate  and  shell  54  1560 

Well  completed  August  14,  1918. 

Shot  with  65  pounds  of  65%  gelatin. 

1237  feet  4%  inches  casing. 

1240  feet  2  inch  tubing  on  Disk  Wall  Packer. 

Elevation  686  feet. 

Drilled  for  A.  B.  Erode  and  Son. 


324  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

GBAYSON  COUNTY. 

LOG  No.  331. 

WELL  AT  MEREDITH. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil  and  clay  10                         10 

Gray  shale  28                         38 

Gray  sand  5                         43 

Black  shale 32                          75 

Black   sand — Asphalt   5                         80 

Black  shale  25  105 

Sand  5  110 

Black  shale 40  150 

Coal 1  151 

Black  shale  5  156 

Gray  sand  10  166 

Black  rock— Asphalt  25  191 

Shale    2  193 

Gray  sand  13  206 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Gray  shale  63  269 

Brown  lime   10  279 

Gray  shale  5  284 

Red  marl  16  300 

Dark  shale  6  306 

Gray  lime  10  316 

Gray  shale  4  320 

Gray  lime  46  366 

Gray  and  white  sand  46  412 

Gray  lime  33  445 

Dark  shale  5  450 

Sand  (Cypress  ?)  60  510 

Gray  lime  92  602 

White  shale  3  605 

White   lime   25  630 

Lime — Sulphur  water  at  774  300  930 

Black  sandy  lime — Gas  show  10  940 

Brown  and  white  lime 55  995 

Brown   shale  10  1005 

Brown  and  white  lime 140  1145 

Gray,  sandy  lime — Gas  show  15  1160 

Gray  lime  35  1195 

Gray  shale  12  1207 

Lime  and  shale  13  1220 

Dark  gray,  sandy  lime  25  1245 

Dark  shale  20  1265 

Dark  lime  ...                                                   .  155  1420 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS  325 

Gray  sand  27  1447 

Sand  and  shale  5  1452 

Gray  and  white  lime  123  1585 

Light  gray  shale  13     "  1598 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black   shale   120  1718 

Black  lime 20  1738 

Black  and  white  lime  5  1743 

Gray  lime  52  1795 

Light  brown  lime  30  1825 

Gray  sandy  lime — Oil  show 15  1840 

Gray  lime  10  1850 

White  lime  50  1900 

Fine  white  sand  (lime  ?) — Oil  show  and 

water   10  1910 

LOG  No.  332. 

JAMES  E.  McGREW  WELL  NO.  1. 
Anneta,  Grayson  (County,  Kentucky. 

Begun  December  30,  1916,  finished  about  April  25,  1917. 
Elevation  750  feet,  estimated. 

Strata                                                          Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil  and  clay  8  8 

Sand  rock  3  11 

Gray  shale 5  16 

Black  rock,  asphalt 1  17 

Blue  shale 70  87 

Gray  sand,  trace  of  asphalt  40  127 

Blue  shale  28  155 

Light  gray  shale  17  172 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Blue  shale  18  190 

Lime  and  shale,  water  10  200 

White  shale  5  205 

Marl,  red  and  blue  8  213 

White  shale  - 7  220 

Blue  shale  30  250 

Lime   shells   5  255 

Blue   shale   48  303 

Lime,  white  8  311 

Blue  shale  15  326 

Lime,  gray,  very  hard  32  358 

Shale    10  368 

Sand   ...  45  413 


OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

Lime,  hard,  Kaskaskia  35  448 

Shale  8  456 

Sand,  lower  15  feet  thin  bands  of  sand 

and  shale,  Big  Clifty  42  498 

Shale,  blue,  soft  12  510 

Lime,  gray,  moderately  hard  5  515 

Shale,  gray,  hard  5  520 

Lime,  white,  hard  10  530 

Shale,  white,  hard  4  534 

Lime,  between  540  and  550,  two  soft 

streaks  of  lime  and   one   about   two 

feet  and   one  about  six    inches    like 

thick  whitewash  40  574 

Shale,  tough,  hard,  white  10  584 

Lime,  varying  in  color  and  hardness  to 

740  156  740 

Lime,  gray,  sandy,  with  hard  shells, 

probably  Waverly,  Blue  Lick  at  830-  150  890 

Lime,  white,  soft,  no  grit  25  915 

Lime,  hard,  flinty,  gritty,  cased  at  918....  7  922 

Lime,  brown  and  white,  soft 60  982 

Lime,  dark  gray,  mixed  with  white,  white 

part  very  soft  18  1000 

Lime,  ibrown  and  white  40  1040 

Lime,  dark  gray,  hard  30  1070 

Lime,  dark,  brown,  hard  65  1135 

Lime,  black  9  1144 

Lime,  brown  and  gray  shales  23  1167 

Lime,  gray  35  1202 

Lime  and  shale,  mixed  with  shells  oc- 
casionally    70  1272 

Shale,  sandy,  dark  3  1275 

Shale,  sandy,  ligbt  gray  15  1290 

Lime,  gray,  very  hard,  gas  at  1355,  about 

enough  to  burn  three  feet  high  out 

of  casing,  no  change  in  rock  65  1355 

Lime,  black,  hard  45  1400 

Lime,  gray,  soft,  shelly  10  1410 

Lime,  gray  and  mixed  with  sand 5  1415 

Lime,  white,  sandy  70  1485 

Shale,  dove  color,  soft  with  hard  shells 

of  gray  lime  35  1520 

Gray  sand  and  lime,  show  of  oil  at  1523, 

gas  at  1531  19  1539 

Shale,  green  and  soft  17  1556 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS  327 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Shale,  brown  Devonian  10  1666 

Lime,  dark,  hard,  gray  25  1691 

Lime,  white  and  gray  mixed 10  1701 

Lime,  dark  brown  15  1716 

Lime,   gray  5  1721 

Lime,  light  gray,  almost  white,  trace  of 

oil,  very  hard  34  1755 

Lime,  brown,  very  hard  15  1770 

Lime,  gray,  soft,  white  flaked  25  1795 

Lime,  white,  hard  35  1830 

Lime,  blue,  gray,  trace  of  oil,  little  salt 

water    5  1835 

Lime,   white   25  1860 

Sand,  gray,  show  of  oil,  stopped  on  hard 

shell,  strong  flow  of  salt  water  5  1865 

Sand,  hard,  white  10  1876 

Lime,  gray,  mixed  with  shale 25  1900 

Lime,  brown,  moderately  soft  10  1910 

1100  feet  of  water  in  well. 

Lime,    brown   15  1925 

Lime,  gray,  very  hard  5  1930 

Lime,  dark  gray,  trace  of  asphalt 5  1935 

Lime,  white,  hard  15  1950 

Lime,  gray  and  white  35  1985 

Lime,  gray  shale  and  lime  mixed  5  1990 

Lime,  dark  gray,  changing  to  light  gray  30  2020 

Lime,  blue  gray  10  2030 

Lime,  light  brown  55  2085 

Shale,  light  gray  5  2090 

Rock,   light  gray,   shale  or  rock  not  de- 
termined      45  2135 

Lime,  gray   25  2160 

Shale,   blue   gray   10  2170 

Lime  and  gray  shale  in  thin  bed 15  2185 

Closed  about  April  25,  1917. 

(Top  of  Silurian  and  Ordovician  indefinite.) 


328  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES   OF  KENTUCKY 

LOG  No.  333. 

HUNTER  WELL  No.  1. 

Leitchfleld. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Shale,  sand  and  clay  ...* 32  32 

Lime    40  72 

Shale 28  100 

Lime    35  135 

Blue   shale  •_ 20  155 

Sand    (Cypress)    40  195 

Lime  20  215 

Shale    10  225 

Lime    37  262 

Shale    13  275 

Lime — Sulphur  water  at  450  and  540 295  570 

Light  brown  lime— Water  at  570  to  590..  45  615 

Gray  lime — Cased  at  690 75  690 

Brown  lime   75  765 

Dark  lime— Sulphur  water  50  815 

Black  lime — Cased  at  840 — Gas  show  at 

900    136  951 

Black  lime  9  960 

Sandy  black  lime — Gas  at  961 4  964 

(Well  starts  in  Chester  and  is  all  in  Mississippian). 

LOG  No.  334. 

HILL  WELL. 
Leitchfleld. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Soil 12  12 

Sand 18  30 

Lime  50  80 

Sand    (Cypress)    80  160 

Shale    12  172 

Lime— Gas  at  320  288  460 

Dark  brown  lime  20  480 

Gray  sandy  lime  15  495 

Brown  lime — "Blue  Lick"  water  at  505 50  545 

Gray    lime    199  744 

White  and  brown  lime— Cased  at  762 18  762 

Dark  gray  lime — Oil  show  at  785 57  819 

Black  lime  56  875 

Dark  gray  lime — Gas  show  70  945 

Black  lime  and  shale  ...                               .  268  1213 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS  329 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black   shale   137  1350 

Gray  and  white  lime  15  1365 

White  and  brown  lime  66  1431 

Dark  brown  lime — Gas  show  at  1433 14  1445 

Gray  and  white  lime  65  1510 

Sandy  lime— Oil  show  at  1514 12  1522 

White  lime  35  1557 

Brown  lime  5  1562 

White    lime   6  1568 

Brown  lime   35  1603 

Gray  lime  57  1660 

Base  of  Devonian  System  Undetermined. 

LOG.  No.  335.  STINSON  WELL  NO.  1. 

Leitchfield. 

Strata                                                          Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSrPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Clay 12  12 

Limestone     12  24 

Crevice     14  38 

Limestone     127  165 

Blue   Shale  2  167 

Limestone     63  230 

Gray  Shale  5  235 

Limestone     10  245 

Gray  shale   50  295 

Black   shale   20  315 

Limestone— "Blue  Lick"  water  at  333 18  333 

Limestone— Cased  at  410,  Gas  at  690 577  910 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black   shale   126  1036 

Shale  and  lime  mixed  7  1043 

Black   shale   5  1048 

Limestone— white 9  1057 

Limestone — gray     28  1085 

[Limestone — dark     19  1104 

Limestone — gray     12  1116 

Limestone— dark— Oil  show  at  1116  5  1121 

Limestane — brown     3  1124 

Limestone — gray     13  1137 

Limestone — brown     21  1158 

Limestone — gray     18  1176 

Limestone — white     34  1210 

Limestone — dark — Oil    show    20  1230 

Limestone — brown     21  1251 

Base  of  Devonian  System  Undetermined. 


330  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES   OF  KENTUCKY 

LOG  No.  336. 

ALLEN— WALLACE  WELL. 

Leitchfield. 
Right  Beaver. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 
MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Clay     * 10  10 

Lime 18  28 

Blue   shale   22  50 

Lime     40  90 

Sand     20  110 

Lime     55  165 

Sand    (Cypress)   55  220 

Shale  and  lime  shells  9  229 

Blue  shale  10  239 

Blue  lime  9  248 

Blue   shale   13  261 

Brown  lime   16  277 

Blue   shale   1  278 

Sandy  lime  6  284 

Blue   shale   1  285 

Lime— Sulphur  water  at  580  1011  1296 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black   shale   160  1456 

Very  dark  lime  14  1470 

Gray  lime  4  1474 

Dark  lime  5  1479 

Gray    lime    52  1531 

Dark  lime  9  1540 

Light  gray  lime  64  1604 

White  lime— Gas  show  at  1609  17  1621 

Brownish  lime  29  1650 

Dark  lime  36  1686 

Light  lime— Salt  water  1860  214  1900 

Very  dark  lime  15  1915 

Gray  lime  22  1937 

Light  brown  lime  28  1965 

Gray  lime  47  2012 

Light  brown  lime  22  2034 

(Well  starts  in  Chester). 
Base  of  Devonian  and  Silurian  Systems  Undetermined. 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS  331 

LOG  No.  750.       RECORD  OF  TUCKER  WELL  NO.  1. 

Brady  Oil  &  Gas  Company,  Emporium,  Pa. 

James  Ross,  Driller. 
Begun  August  17,  1918. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Clay  (surface)  14                         14 

Big  Clifty  sand  70                         84 

Missing    6                          90 

Lime,  gray  10  100 

Lime,   brown   5  105 

Missing    3  108 

Lime,   gray  36  144 

Lime,   brown,   sandy   35  179 

Lime,  gray 10  189 

Lime,  brownish  117  306 

Shale  or  shaly  4  310 

Lime,  lime,  gray,  brownish  74  384 

Mud     2  386 

Lime,  gray,  brownish  31  417 

Missing    41  458 

Lime,  light  brown  4  24  482 

Lime,  gray,  brownish  110  592 

Lime,  dark,  brown  8  600 

Samples  missing,  cases  last  time 151  751 

Lime,  light  gray,  hard  14               ,        765 

Lime,  light  gray,  medium  35  800 

Lime,  light  gray,  hard  26  826 

Lime,  light  dark,   soft  10  836 

Lime,  light  dark,  hard  14  850 

Lime,  gray,  hard    20  870 

Lime,  dark,  medium  14  884 

Lime,  dark,  hard  91  975 

Lime,  dark,  medium  hard  35  1010 

Lime,  dark  medium  soft  55  1065 

Lime,  dark,  medium  hard  122  1187 

Lime,  brown  sandy,  oil  10  1197 

Lime,  brown  sandy,  oil  8  1205 

Lime,    shelly    4  1209 

Lime,   black   29  1238 

Lime,  gray,  white  specks  6  1244 

Lime,  light  gray,  brownish   56  1300 

Lime,  black,  sandy  8  1308 

Black  shale,  Devonian  122  1420 

Light  and  shale  mixed,  very  dark 10  1430 

Lime,  gray  with  white  specks 15  1445 


332  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

Lime,    dark    45  1490 

Lime,   brownish   gray   12  1502 

Lime,  brownish   gray   52  1554 

Lime,  brownish  gray,  dark  6  1560 

Lime,  brownish  gray,  dark  12  1572 

Lime,  bluish  6  1578 

Lime,  bluish  6  1584 

Lime,  bluish  40  1624 

LOG  No.  751.  JOHN  T.  DUNN  WELL  NO.  1. 

Leitchfield,  1918. 
Begun  February  8,  1918. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 
MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Clay  39  39 

Lime  4  43 

Slate  or  marl,  14"  conductor  to  42  ft 30  73 

Sand,  supposed  to  be  the  Big  iClifty  58  131 

Cave   5  136 

Lime,  St.  Louis,  St.  Genevieve   (water  at 

165  and  10"  casing  to  158) 29  165 

Slate   20  185 

Sand,  no  sample  taken  15  200 

Lime,  St.  Louis  _ 50  250  . 

Slate,   soapstone  8  258 

Lime,  gray  cased  with  8"  casing    at    386 

feet    70  328 

Lime  continued  52  380 

Slate   4  384 

Lime,  gray . 31  415 

Lime,  .brown  50  465 

Lime,  gray,  brown  flakes  12  477 

Lime,  brown  10  487 

Lime,  brown,  sulphur  water  5  492 

Lime,  gray,  soft  5  497 

Lime,  brown,  some  hard 13  510 

Lime,  brown,  hard  15  525 

Lime,  gray,  soft  5  530 

Lime,   brownish,   10   ft.    soft   then   10   ft. 

hard 20  550 

Lime,  gray,  softer  and  medium  10  560 

Lime,  dark  brown,  harder  11  571 

Lime,  dark  gray,  white  specks,  soft 7  578 

Lime,  brown,  hard 5  585 

Lime,  gray,  softer,  sulphur  at  585 4  587 

Lime,  brown  ...  18  605 


RECORDS  OP  DRILLED  WELLS  33; 

Lime,  very  dark,  oily,  coffee  grounds 5  610 

Lime,  very  dark,  brownish  gray 17  627 

Cased  at  616  and  619,  last  3-28-1918. 

Lime,  light  brown 2  629 

Lime,  brown  and  gray,  softer  and  harder, 

no  samples  53  682 

Lime,  dark  gray,  white  specks 1  705 

Lime,  dark  gray,  sandy,  inky  black   sul- 
phur water  3  708 

Lime,   dark  gray,  white   specks   4  712 

Lime,  sandy,  oily  41  753 

Lime,  softer,  cased  last  time  at  758  feet, 

no  samples 5  758 

Lime,  dark  gray,  some    chert    and    hard 

streaks   353  1128 

Lime,  sandy  specks 15  1143 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Ohio  shale  137  1280 

Lime,  gray,  last  screw  sandy 38  1318 

Lime,  gray  15  1333 

Lime,  dark  brownish  gray  6  1339 

Lime,  gray   13  1352 

Lime,  sandy  gray,  place  for  1st  Ohio  oil  8  1360 

Lime,  dark  gray,  soft  flakes  in  last  screw  14  1374 

Lime,  gritty,  some  very  light  specks 94  1468 

Lime,  gray,  nearly  white  5  1473 

Lime,  shade  darker  6  1479 

Lime,  gray,  shade  lighter  16  1495 

Lime,  sandy,  oil  sand,  little  oil  10  1505 

Lime,  nearly  white,  drilling  ceased  3  1508 

Well  finished  April  29,  1918. 

Authority,  James  Hancock,  Driller. 

LOG  No.  752. 

PATTERSON  WELL  NO.  1. 

Near  Olaten. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 
MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Slate  12  12 

White  lime,  hard 15  27 

Oil  sand  5  32 

Blue   shale   16  48 

White  lime,  hard  5  53 

Blue  shale  11  64 

White  lime,  hard  31  95 

Blue  broken  lime  9  104 


334                 OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES   OF  KENTUCKY 

Sandy  lime  10  114 

White  lime  36  150 

White  lime 60  210 

Brown  lime  55  265 

White  lime  32  297 

Oil  sand  6  303 

Gray  lime 32  335 

Blue  Lick  formation  61  396 

Brown  lime  4  400 

Cased  8"  hole  at 400 

White  lime 2  402 

Slate  lime  2  404 

White  lime,  hard  11  415 

Gray  lime  5  420 

Brown  lime  6  426 

Brown  and  gray  lime  5  431 

L'ght  brown  lime,  hard  5  436 

Gas  sand  10  446 

Light  brown  lime 19  465 

Gray  lime,  hard  5  470 

Dark  gray  lime  44  514 

Brown  gray,  lime  8  522 

Dark  brown  lime  23  545 

Dark  brown  lime  32  582 

Gray  and  'brown  lime,  hard 8  590 

Gray  lime,  hard  10  600 

Dark  gray  lime 35  635 

Blue  and  white  lime  15  m  650 

Dark  gray  lime,  sandy  5  655 

Brown  lime,  hard 35  690 

Dark  gray  lime,  hard  45  735 

Black  lime,  soft  29  764 

Dark  gray  lime,  soft  71  835 

Black  lime,  soft  90  925 

Gray  lime,  soft  15  940 

Oil  sand,  show  of  oil  6  946 

Gray  lime  11  957 

Top  of  oil  sand  10  967 

Oil  sand  9  976 

Gray  lime  59  1035 

Gray  sandy  lime  20  1055 

Blue  shell  lime  5  1060 

Blue  lime  and  slate  5  1065 

Blue  slate  23  1088 

Black   shale    ...                                                  .  184  1272 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS 


335 


Black  lime,  hard  

Dark  black  lime  

Black  gray  lime  

Black  lime,  soft 

Black  and  gray  lime  

Gray  lime  

Hard  light  brown  sand,  show  of  gas 

Brown   sand    

Brown  sand,  soft  

Black   lime    

Black  lime,  soft  

Black  lime,  hard  

Gray  lime 

White  lime,  soft  ... 


1276 
1280 
1284 
1290 
1296 
1300 
1314 
1334 
1344 
1350 
1365 
1380 
1387 
1392 


LOG  No.  337. 


GBEEN  COUNTY. 


RUSSELL  FARM. 


Strata 
MISSISSrPPIAN   SYSTEM. 
Clay                      

Thicki 
8 

Gray  lime           

20 

Brown    lime 

93 

Gray  lime       

19 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 
Black   shale 

48 

White  lime        

7 

Sandy  lime 

4 

Shale 

2 

Gas  well. 

Depth 


28 
121 
140 

188 
195 
199 
201 


LOG  No.  338. 

R.  C.  WHITE  FARM. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

UISSISSTPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Clay 20  20 

Gravel    2  22 

Lime  118  140 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black   shale   45  185 

Gray  shale  10  195 

White  sand  (lime?)  10  205 

Lime  shell 3  208 

"Gas    sand"    19  227 

Gas  well. 


S36  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES   OF  KENTUCKY 

LOG  No.  339. 

ADA  TURNER  FARM. 

Highland. 
(Partial  record.) 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Lime  325  325 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black   shale   19  344 

Salt   water  at        379 


LOG  No.  340. 

W.  A.  CHERRY  FARM. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Sandy   lime   100  100 

Gray  lime  75  175 

Gray   shale   81  256 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  42  298 

Hard    lime    8  306 

White  sand  (lime?)  18  324 

"Gas    sand"    32  356 

SILURIAN  SYSTEM. 

Gray   shale   25  381 

Pink   shale   14  395 

Gas  well. 


LOG  No.  341. 

W.  O.  PENICK  FARM. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Deptl 
MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Clay    2  2 

Lime     108  110 

"Salt   sand"   2  112 

Dark  lime  38  150 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black   shale   50  200 

Lime     25  225 

"Gas    sand"    24  249 

Gas  well. 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS  337 

LOG  NO.  342 

BUCHANAN  FARM. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Clay     6  6 

Lime     242  248 

White  shale  10  258 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black   shale   51  309 

Gray    lime    6  315 

Soft  white  lime  26  341 

"Gas  sand"  21  362 

Gas  well. 

GEEENUP  COUNTY. 

LOG  No.  343. 

RECORD  OF  UNITED  FUEL-GAS  CO.— TRANSYLVANIA  OIL  &  GAS 

CO.  JOINT  WELL  NO.  1. 
Drilled   on  Geo.  F.  Bradley  Farm,   Big  White  Oak  Creek, 

Completed  June  6,  1918. 

Strata                                                       Top  Bottom     Thickness 

Surface,  gravel,   etc 12                12 

Fresh  water  12 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Big  lime  12  87                75 

Blue  clay  r 87  140                53 

Slate  and  shells  140  305             165 

Sandstone    305  350                45 

Slate    - 350  415                65 

Limestone   415  548              133 

Black  slate  548  575              127 

Dark   shale  594  600                  6 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Brown  shale  (cased  794  ft.— 8%  in.)..  675  985              310 

White   slate   985  1065                80 

Show  of   gas   1065  1072                  7 

Rag'and  sand  1085  1120                35 

Water  at  1115 

SILURIAN  SYSTEM. 

Niagara  lime  1120  1420              300 

White  shale  1420  1430                10 

Red  rock  (cased  1520  ft.  6  5-8) 1430  1550              120 

Clinton   sand   1605  1650                45 

Show  of  oil  at  1629 

Shale    1650  1667                 17 

Total  Depth  1667 


338       OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

CASING  RECORD 
10  inch  No.  32—100  ft.  pulled. 
8  1-4  inch  No.  24— 794ft.  left  in  well. 
6  5-8  inch  No.  17 — 1520  ft.  pulled. 


LOG  No.  344. 

RECORD  OF  UNITED  FUEL-GAS  CO.— TRANSYLVANIA  OIL  &  GAS 

CO.  JOINT  WELL  NO.  2. 

Drilled  on  Sanford  Bradley  Farm,  Big  White  Oak  Creek, 
Completed  December,  1918. 

Strata  Top          Bottom    Thickness 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Surface,  gravel,  etc  10  10 

Fresh  water  20  10 

Lime   20  55  35 

Slate  55  100  45 

Blue   clay   100  300  200 

S'ate  and  lime  300  425  125 

Sand    425  435  10 

Lime   435  525  90 

Black  slate  525  600  75 

White  slate  600  675  75 

Lime  and  black  shale  675  725  50 

Brown  shale  725  815  90 

Lime    shell    815  825  10 

Brown  shale  825  925  100 

Light  shale  925  995  70 

Lime,  light,  hard  995  1315  320 

Light  shale  1315  1325  10 

Red  rock  1325  1450  125 

White  slate  1450  1485  35 

Red  rock  1485  1500  15 

B  ue  shale  1500  1510  10 

Clinton  sand  1510  1535  25 

Blue  shale  1535  1575  40 

Slate  and  shells  1575  1610  35 

Red  rock  1610  1630  20 

Slate   1630  1755  125 

Lime   1755  1765  10 

Slate  and  lime  shells  1765  2301  536 

Total  depth  of  hole  2301 

Water  at  432 

Show  of  oil  and  gas  1000 

Water — three  bailers  per  hour  1015 

Water— hole  full  1080 

Cave    ..  1375     to    1425 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS  339 

CASING  RECORD 
13  inch  conductor — 13  1-2  ft. 
10  inch  casing — 106  ft.  pulled. 
8  1-4  inch  casing — 500  ft.  pulled. 
6  5-8  inch  casing — 1330  ft.  pulled. 
Devonian  and  Silurian  Systems  Indefinite. 


HANCOCK  COUNTY. 

LOG  No.  345. 

NEWMAN  WELL. 
5  Miles  S.  of  Hawesville. 

Strata                                                             Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

C!ay   10  10 

Sand    160  170 

AlISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Blue  slate  (top  of  Chester?)  50  220 

Blue   lime   35  255 

Dark   s'.ate    55  310 

Lime   110  420 

Red  slate  25  445 

Lime   75  520 

Red  slate  10  530 

Gritty  lime — Oil  show  at  535 — water 25  555 

White  lime  80  635 

White  sand — water  at  645 20  655 

Gray  lime— "Blue  Lick"  water  at  830 225  880 

Dark  lime  300  1180 

Gray  lime   220  1400 

Dark  lime  110  1510 

Gray  lime  290  1800 

Dark  lime  50  1850 

Gray  lime  25  1875 

Dark  lime  25  1900 

Gray  lime  10  1910 

Dark  lime  55  1965 

Dark  slate  45  2010 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Brown  slate,                                  78  2088 

Gray  lime     l(Devonian)             7  2095 

Brown  slate  J                                 30  2125 

Gray  lime  25  2150 

White  lime— Oil   show  at  2225 170  2320 

Dark  lime  10  2330 

White  lime  23  2353 


340       OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

HAERISON  COUNTY. 

LOG  No.  346. 

WELL  AT  CYNTHIANA. 
(Partial  record.) 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

Soil    ..  24  24 

ORDOVICIAN  SYSTEM. 

Dark   gray   lime   52  76 

Light,    fine-grained    lime — sulphur    water 

at  74  19  95 

Gray  lime  55  150 

Very  dark  gray  lime  at  175 

Light  dove-colored  lime  (Tyrone) at  215     to      300 

Light  lime  at  350     to      600 

Dark  dove-colored   lime  at  670     to     690 

Light  green  shale  at  760 

Light  sandy  lime  (Calciferous)  ...  at  785     to   1000 


HART  COUNTY. 

LOG  No.  347. 

WELL  ON  DOG  CREEK. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth. 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Soil    12  12 

Gray  lime  26  38 

Blue  shale  26  64 

Hard  lime  10  74 

Blue  shale  34  108 

Gray  lime  50  158 

Dark  lime  70  228 

Light  gray  lime— salt  water  50  278 

Light  gray  sand  25  303 

Gray  lime   71  374 

Dark  gray   sand   24  398 

Gray  lime  120  518 

Dark  gray  sand   54  572 

Light  gray  lime  30  602 

Red  lime  40  642 

Very  dark  lime  93  735 

Dark  bastard  sand — Oil  show 12  747 

Dark  gray  lime  178  925 

Dark  bastard   sand   42  967 

Very  dark  lime  138  1105 

Lead-colored  slate  (Base  of  Mississippian)  5  1110 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS  341 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black   shale   105  1215 

Gray  lime  25  1240 

Open  sandy  streak— Oil  and  gas  shows....  18  1258 

Dark  lime  14  1272 

Dark  sandy  lime  8  1280 

Light  sandy  lime — oil  show  10  1290 

Soft  gray  lime   40  1330 

Base  of  Devonian  Indefinite. 


LOG  No.  348. 

WELL  ON  DOG  CREEK. 

Strata                                                             Thickness  Depth 
illSSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Soil    9  9 

Gray  lime  56  65 

Blue   shale   4  69 

Dark  gray  lime  1  70 

Dark  gray  sand   20  90 

Blue   shale    12  102 

Lime   28  130 

Gray    sand    7  137 

Dark  gray  shale  10  147 

Gray   bastard   sand   12  159 

Dark  gray  shale  27  186 

Gray  lime  19  205 

Coal    6" 

Dark  gray  shale  4  209 

Gray  lime  10  219 

Dark  shale  3  222 

Gray  lime   248  470 

Brownish-gray  lime  1 35  505 

Hard  gray  sand  20  525 

Gray  lime  _..  97  622 

Dark   bastard   lime   178  800 

Dark  gray  lime  15  815 

Bastard  lime  and  sand  25  840 

Black  bastard  lime  80  920 

Hard  dark  sand  30  950 

Dark  bastard  lime  50  1000 

B:ack   bastard   slate   40  1040 

Black  bastard   lime 173  1213 

Probobly  all  Mississippian. 


342  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES   OF  KENTUCKY 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  105  1318 

Hard  gray  sand  10  1328 

B  ack  slate  6  1334 

Gray  hard  sand  (?)  2  1336 

Light  gray  sand   (?)   23  1359 

Dark  gray  sand  (?)  6  1365 

Hard  bastard  sand   (?)   6  1371 

Hard  bastard  lime  25  1396 

Hard  gray   sand    (?) 24  1420 

Reddish  gray  sand  (?)  10  1430 

Light  open  sand  (?) — strong  salt  water....  17  1447 

The  "sand"  given  below  the  black  shale  was  probab'.y  lime. 


LOG  No.  349. 

CROGAN  FARM. 
Dog  Creek. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Soil   and   gravel   18  18 

Gray  lime  40  58 

Yellow  lime  40  98 

White  slate  7  105 

Lime   5  110 

White   slate   35  145 

Lime   ...! 175  320 

"Blue   Lick" 20  340 

Lime   155  495 

Sandy    lime    30  525 

"B  ue    stone"    15  540 

Slate   10  550 

Lime   25  575 

Slate    8  583 

Lime   192  775 

Sandy  lime  75  850 

Very  hard  lime  250  1100 

"Broken"   40  1140 

White  slate  5  1145 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  (Devonian)  80  1225 

Brown,  sandy  lime — oil  show  50  1275 

Light  brown  lime  20  1295 

White    lime    105  1400 

Very  Irregular  Record. 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS 


343 


LOG  No.  350. 

POMEROY  AND  HAMILTON  WELL. 

1*6  Miles  S.  W.  of  Upton. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Soil    7                            7 

Lime  348  355 

Limy  sha'e  150  505 

Dark  shaly  lime  290  795 

DEVONIAN   SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  (Devonian)  79  874 

Siliceous  lime  4  878 

Brown  lime  52  930 

Dark  shaly  lime  30  960 

Gray  lime— salt  water  at  960 18  978 

Dark  shaly  lime  33  1011 

Red  shale  5  1016 

White  shaly  lime  22  1038 

Dark  slate  22  1060 

Dark  shaly  lime  25  1085 

Dark  greenish  s'ate  16  1101 

HOPKINS  COUNTY. 

LOG  No.  351. 

EARLINGTON  WELL. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Sand    192  192 

Shale   17  209 

Shale  and  sand  9  218 

Coal    1  219 

Sha'e   45  264 

Dark  shale  and  thin  coal  5  269 

Shale    23  292 

Sand  with  shale  breaks  27  319 

Hard  cap  1  320 

White   sand— water  47  367 

Black  sand  2  369 

Shale  and  coal  stain  2  371 

Sand    32  403 

Shale   2  405 

Sand— Oil  show  at  418  77  482 

Shale  21  503 

Sand   25  528 

Shale   80  608 

Sand    35  643 

Shale   9  652 

Sandy  shale  19  671 

Sand    ..                                                130  801 


344  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF   KENTUCKY 

Pebbly   shale  12  813 

Sand    6  819 

Blue  lime 13  831 

Shale   13  844 

Sand    78  922 

Shale   15  937 

Sand    5  942 

Coal    „ 3  945 

Sand   105  1050 

Shale  1  1051 

Sand   46  1097 

Shale   2  1099 

Sand  with  shale  breaks  23  1122 

Sand   12  1134 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Shale    4  1138 

Lime  12  1150 

Red  shale  20  1170 

Sand   5  1175 

Shale    15  1190 

Sand   14  1204 

Blue  s  ate  10  1214 

Sand   11  1225 

Limy  shale 32  1257 

Sand   6  1263 

Black  shale  9  1272 

Soft  shale  ...  44  1316 


JOHNSON  COUNTY. 

LOG  No.  352.  THOMAS  OSBORN  FARM. 

Toms  Creek. 

Strata                                                             Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil    39  39 

Dark   slate   126  165 

Gray  sand  210  375 

Dark   slate   95  470 

White  sand   (base  of  Pottsville) 85  555 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

"Big   lime"   159  714 

Dark  sand  136  850 

Dark  slate  170  1020 

Black  slate  15  1035 

Gray  sand  90  1125 

White    s:ate   20  1145 

Black  slate   (Sunbury?)  35  1180 

Dark  sand   (Berea?)   ...                                       30  1210 


RECORDS  OP  DRILLED  WELLS  345 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black   shale   400  1610 

White  slate  105  1715 

Lime   ...  97  1812 


LOG  No.  353. 

FREDERICK  MURRAY  FARM. 
Toms  Creek. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 
PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil    : 19  19 

Black  slate  186  205 

White  sand  (base  of  Pottsville)  399  604 

IU1SSIS3IPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

"Big  lime"   156  760 

Blue  sand  40  800 

Black  slate  269  1069 

Gray  sand 75  1144 

Gray    s'.ate    and    shells    61  1205 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale    1                               75  1280 

White    slate     (Devonian?)         68  1348 

Brown  shale    J                               327  1675 

White   slate   125  1800 

White  lime  ...                                                  .  132  1932 


LOG  No.  354. 

M.  F.   SLOAN  FARM. 
Toms  Creek. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

Soil    21  21 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

White    sand   ..     384  405 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

White  lime— "Big  lime"   145  550 

Slate  and  shell  330  880 

Light   sand   80  960 

White   s'ate   30  990 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  slate  480  1470 

White   slate   147  1617 

Lime  ...                                              383  2000 


346       OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

LOG  No.  355. 

BARNETTS   CREEK. 

Lessee,  Leroy  Adams  Oil  Co.     Casing  Head  Elvation  702  Ft. 
Production  5  Barrels  Light  Green  Oil. 
Total  Depth  1035  Feet. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Sandstone,    Pottsville    460  460 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Grey   shale   10  470 

"Mauch    Chunk"    "Big    Lime,"    Gas    490, 

St.  Louis  69  539 

Pale    green    to    grey    sha'ey    sandstone, 

Waverly    369  908 

"Sunberry"  shale  11  919 

"Wier"  sand   (oil  919-953)   34  953 

Hard  sandy  shale — Berea  77  1030 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black   shale   ...  5  1035 


LOG  No.  356. 

MUD  LICK  CREEK. 

Lessor,  Zollie  Ward.    Lessee,  Leroy  Adams  Oil  Co. 

Casing  Head  Elvation  613  Feet. 

Total  Depth  1950. 

Strata  Feet  Feet 
PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Sandstone — gas  and  little  oil,  200-205 280 

Shale    280  295 

Sandy  shale  -..- 295  323 

Fine  grained  sandstone  323  335 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Sandy    shale — oil    soaked    and    gas — Big 

Injun    series   417  430 

Waverly  shaley  sands  430  782 

Sunberry    782  787 

Berea  sand  fair  gas  blow  787  800 

Berea  sand  800  875 

Berea  sand  but  more  gas  875  885 

Sandy  shale  (Transitiona1.)  ...                     .  885  900 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS  347 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  and  varied  colors 900  1510 

Brown  coffee  shale  1510  1520 

Oil  soaked  and  gassy  limestone 

— "Corniferous"  1520  1534 

Limestone.     (Salt  and  pepper) 1534  1585 

Sandy  lime  fresh  water — 2  bails. 

Oriskany?    1585  1600 

Lime   _ 1600  1670 

Limey  shale  1670  1675 

Limestone,  hard  1675  1695 

Strong  gas — very   poisonous.     Large   su"- 

phur  percentage  1695  1700 

Limestone    „ 1700  1820 

SILURIAN  SYSTEM. 

Grey   shale   1820  1825 

Limestone — Manlius  of  Silurian?  1825  1950 

LOG  No.  357. 

J.  H.  STAMBAUGH  FARM. 
Toms  Creek. 

Strata                                                          Thickness  Depth 
PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Sand  and  gravel  33  33 

Black  slate  12  45 

White  sand  145  190 

White  slate  8  198 

White  sand  81  279 

Black  slate  4  283 

White  sand  (base  of  Pottsville) 197  480 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

"Big   lime"   123  603 

White    slate    200  803 

Slate  and  shells  151  954 

Black  sand  70  1024 

Gray    sand    28  1052 


DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale                    >,               128  1180 

White  shale                                   50  1230 

Black  shale                     ^Devonian?) 154  1384 

White  sand  and  shell   f              16                   "  1400 

Black  shale                   J               161  1561 

White   slate   .'. 159  1720 

Gray  lime  383  2103 

Devonian  record  irregular 


348     .  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES   OF  KENTUCKY 

LOG  No.  358. 

NANCY  WITTEN  FARM. 

Toms  Creek. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIA^  SYSTEM. 

Soil    95  120 

Black  slate  20  140 

Black  sand  368  508 

White  sand  8  516 

Black  slate    (base  of  Pottsville) 158  674 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

"Big   lime" 80  754 

Gray  sand  266  1020 

Slate  and  shale  70  1090 

Gray  sand  38  1128 

Slate  and  shells  494  1622 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  169  1791 

White  shale  539  2330 

Lime  10  2340 

Black  slate  145  2485 

Devonian  record  irregular,  base  indefinite. 


LOG  No.  359. 

J.  B.  VANHOOSE  FARM. 

Toms  Creek. 

Strata                                                             Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil    '. 55  55 

Black  s'ate  185  240 

Brown  sand  20  260 

White  slate 30  290 

Gray  sand  103  393 

White   slate   42  435 

White  sand  (base  of  Pottsville)  265  700 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

White  lime— "Big  lime"  150  850 

Dark  sand  100  950 

White   slate   244  1194 

Gray  sand 75  1269 

Slate   shell   56  1325 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black    slate    500  1825 

White   slate   143  1968 

Black   shale  23  1991 

Gray  lime  15  2006 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS 


349 


LOG  No.   360. 


J.  C.  MURPHY  FARM. 
Toins  Creek. 


Strata 
PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Sand  and  gravel  

Black  slate  

White  sand  

Black  slate  

White  sand  (base  of  Pottsville) 


Thickness 


5 
370 


MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

White  lime— "Big  lime"  158 

Dark  shale  150 

White  shale  209 

Gray  sand  73 

White  slate  and   shell  50 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black   shale   

White  slate   

White  lime  

Dark  lime  

Devonian  record  irregular. 


450 

155 

90 


Depth 

30 

80 
160 
165 
535 


693 

843 

1052 

1125 

1175 


1625 
1780 
1870 
1962 


LOG  No.  361. 


W.  A.  STAPLETON  FARM. 
Toms  Creek. 


Thickness 

..  21 

..  140 

..  35 

.  349 


Strata 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 
Soil 

Slate   

Black  sand  

White  sand  (base  of  Pottsville)  ... 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Lime   155 

Black  slate  235 

Slate  and  shells  95 

Gray  sand  90 

White   slate   30 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black   shale   482 

White   slate   ; 139 

Lime  ...                                                        94 


Depth 

21 
161 
196 
545 


700 

935 

1030 

1120 

1150 


1632 
1771 
1865 


350  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES   OF  KENTUCKY 

LOG  No.  362. 

W.  H.  CONLEY  FARM. 

Pigeon  Creek  of  Little  Paint  Creek.  Alt.   980  feet.    August  17,  1918. 
Production  1,000,000  cu.  ft.  gas. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 
PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil    12  12 

Blue  shale  38  50 

Coal   1%  51% 

Blue  shale  38%  90 

White  sand — Oil  shows  220  310 

Sandy  shale  30  340 

Slate  65  405 

White  sand  35  440 

Slate   5  445 

Shell   7  452 

Black  slate   (base  of  Pottsville) 23  475 


MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

"Little    lime"    10  485 

Blue   shale   20  505 

"Big   lime"   80  585 

Sand    250  835 

Blue  shale  15  850 

Light  brown  sand — Gas  60  910 

Greenish  blue  sand  20  930 

Brown   sand  20  950 

Black  sha'e  (Sunbury) 20  970 

Brown   sand    (Berea?)    ..  60  1030 


DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale                              ^     360  1390 

B  ack  slate  and  limy  shells  ^.(Devonian?)  10  1400 

Black  shale                               J      50  1450 

Greenish  white  shale       120  1570 

Brown   shale    7  1577 

Brown  lime — Gas  20  1597 

Dark  blue  lime  15  1612 

White  lime  28  1640 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS  351 

LOG  No.  363. 

LITTLE  MINE  FORK  OF  PAINT  CREEK. 

Lessee  P.  J.  White. 

Casing  Head  Elevation  850.     Total  Depth  2005. 
Strata  Thickness     Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil  and  shale  41  41 

Massive  sandstone  144  185         "Salt"  sand 

Shale  ! 85  270 

Shaly    sandstone    and    cal- 
careous shale  65  335 

Shaly  lime  65  400         "Little  lime" 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Pencil  cave  5  405         "Big  lime" 

Lime  77  482 

Slate    46  528 

Sandstone   116  644         "Big  Injun" 

Sate  156  800 

Black  slate  10  810         "Sunberry" 

Sandstone  66  876         "Berea" 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

B  ack  shale  269  1145 

White  shale  85  1230 

Sandy  lime    (Corniferous)..  13  1243 
SILURIAN  SYSTEM. 

Sandy  lime  587  1830 

Red  and  pink  shales 175  2005         "Clinton" 

LOG  No.  364.  JENNYS  CREEK. 

Lessor,  Sherman  Rice,  No.  1.     Lessee,  L.  C.  White. 
October  20,  1917.     Completed  February  14,  1918. 

Total  Depth  1063  feet. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil,   sandy 20 

Coal  5  25 

Quicksand  23  48 

Lime  32  80 

Sand,  white — water  40  120 

Shale,  blue  60  180 

Lime,  sandy — gas  15  195 

Shale  15  205 

Lime  10  215 

Sand,  white  5  220 

Lime   20  240 

Sand,  salt,  dark  oil  30  270 

Shale,  blue  60  330 

Sand  gas  in  bottom,  very  hard 170  500 

Shale,  blue  ...  80  580 


£52       OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Sand,  Maxon,  little  gas  7  587 

Lime,  sandy  10  597 

Lime,  St.  Louis,  little  'gas  about  665,  and 

little  water,  about  670 — 1  bbl.  per  day 

salt  water  110  707 

Slate,  green  25  732 

Waverly  shale  263  995 

Hard  grey  sandy  shale  7  1002 

Shale,  brown  18  1020 

Shale,  black  5  1025 

Sandy  sha'.e,  show  of  oil  9  1034 

Sand,  Berea  29  1063 

Lime,  sandy  and  hard  1  1064 

Sand  pumpings  had  odor  of  oil  all  thru  from  1025  to  1063. 


LOG  No.  365. 

JENNYS  CREEK. 
Lessor,  Sherman  Rice,  No.  2.    Lessee,  L.  C.  White. 

Started  April  20,  1918.     Completed  May  4,  1918. 
Producing  Sand,  Pottsville.     Ttotal  Depth,  356  feet. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIA^  SYSTEM. 

Soil  17 

Gravel  and  sand  10  27 

Sandstone  4  31 

Lime   9  40 

Blue  shale,  very  sticky,  muds  up 23  63 

Lime  20  83 

White  sand— water 42  125 

B  ue  shale 58  183 

Lime  15  198 

Blue  shale— little  gas 34  232 

Lime  20  252 

Sandy  lime  16  268 

Dark  gray  sand— show  of  light  amber  oil..  24  292 

Pipe  clay  5  297 

Light  gray  sand — fair  show  of  very  heavy 

green  oil 15  311 

Condition  of  this  sand  very  rotten — salt 

water  in  abundance  with  oil. 

Shale  and  slate  45  356 

S1^  casing  set  at  179  feet. 
Water  conditions  so  bad  in  shallow  sands,  which  evidently  are 

salt  sands,  we  could  do  nothing  with  the  oil. 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS  353 

LOG  No.  366. 

JENNYS  CREEK. 
Lessor,  Sherman  Rice,  No.  3.     Lessee,  L.  C.  White. 

Started  June  6,  1918.     Completed  June  21,  1918. 
Producing  Sand,  Pottsville.    Total  Depth,  314  feet. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil  36 

Lime  21  57 

Sand,  very  white,   small  show  of  heavy 

black  oil 40  97 

Lime  5  102 

Slate  15  117 

Pipe  clay— salt  water  20  137 

Blue  shale  98  235 

Lime— little  gas   7  242 

Dark  gray  sand — little  water. 

Dark  gray  sand — small  show  amber  oil....  286 
Dark  gray  sand — very  rotten — heavy  dose 

of  water 314 

6^4  casing  at  164  feet. 

Water  conditions  so  bad  in  shallow  sands,  which  evidently  are 
salt  sands,  we  could  do  nothing  with  the  oil. 


LOG  No.   367. 

C.  N.  WILLIAMS  FARM. 

One  Mile  South  of  Red  Bush,  Upper  Laurel  Creek. 
Elevation  of  surface  870. 

Strata  Feet 
PENNSY-LVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil   20 

Slate  „ 50 

Sand   150 

Mud  33 

Sand — settling  sand  48 

Mud 7 

Black  lime 5 

Mud  6 

Hard  sand  7 

White  lime  ; 26 

White  lime  98 

Sand   12 

Slate  221 

Sand   :.  33 

Slate  3 

Oil  &  Gas— 12 


354 


OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 


Hard  cap  

Slate   

Slate  and  she'.ls 

Hard   

Slate — Sunbury    .... 

Brown   sand  

Gas  at  832. 


817  to  909 


Total  depth  909 


LOG  No.  368. 

WELL  NEAR  HEAD   OF  PICKLE  FORK   OF   BARNETT'S   CREEK. 

Leroy  Adams   (Federal  Oil  Co.),  lessee. 
Elevation  surface — 950  feet — 25  feet. 


Strata  Thickness 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 


Sand     

Shale   

Shaley   sand 
Black  shale 
Sandstone   ... 
Dark  shale  ... 
Sandstone    .. 


0 

73 
95 
10 
102 
30 
26 


MISS;SSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Shale  4 

Lime    10 

Grey   shaley  sandstone  345 

Black  shale  8 

"Upper"  Berea  25 

Shale  4 

Shaley  sand  30 

Shale  ...  13 


to 


Depth 

20 
93 
188 
198 
300 
330 
556 


560 
670 

1015 
1023 
1048 
1052 
1082 
1095 


Big  lime. 

Lower  80'  of  this  Weir. 
Sunbury  shale. 
Berea  sandstone. 


LOG  No.  369. 

BED  ROCK  OIL  CO.,  W.  H.  CONLEY  No.  3. 
On  the  Head  of  Pigeon  Creek  of  Little   Paint  Creek. 
Elevation  surface  935. 

Strata  Thickness     Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Drift    0  to         12 

Shale — show  black  oil..      58  70 
Sand-fresh  water  at 

180 245  315 

Sandy   shales   ...                   35  440 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS 


355 


MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 
Gray  shale  
Lime 

10 
8 

Shale    gray 

5 

White  lime   

6 

Gray  shale  .    .  .. 

10 

Lime    

3 

Gray  shale 

3 

White   lime 

90 

Sandy  lime  

155 

Gray  shale  

40 

Sand 

5 

Sand 

5 

Hard  fine  sand  
Black  shale  
Gray   sand  . 

5 

40 

7 

Gray   sand 

8 

Gray  sand 

8 

Gray   sand   

30 

Blue  shales  

22 

450 
458 
463 
469 
479 
482 
485 
575 
730 
770 
775 
780 
785 
825 
832 
840 
848 
868 
890 


Big  lime.  Casing  set  at 
497.5. 


212,000  cu.  ft. 


555,680  cu.  it.  gas. 
681,120  cu.  ft.  gas. 
823,970  cu.  ft.  gas 
979,000  cu.  ft.  gas. 


Rock  pressure  285  pounds. 


LOG  NO.  376. 


KNOTT  COUNTY. 

BALLS  FORK 

5%  Miles  From  Hindman. 

Mouth  of  Mill  Branch. 


Strata  Thickness 

PENNSYLVANIA^  SYSTEM. 

Soil   10 

Light  shale  10 

Sand    4 

Coal    5 

Dark    slate    5 

Gray  sand  32 

Coal    3 

Light   slate   15 


Sand    .. 

Slate    

Gray  sand  . 
Coal 

Black  Slate 


White  sand  44 


Coal    

Black  slate 


Gray  sand  15 


Depth 

10 

20 

24 

29 

34 

66 

69 

84 
100 
120 
147 
150 
166 
210 
214 
248 
263 


356  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

Light   slate   60  323 

White  sand 12  335 

Light   slate    30  365 

Coal    , 4  369 

Dark  slate  70  439 

Gray  sand  . 12  451 

Light   slate   54  505 

Sand    20  525 

Black  slate  128  653 

White  sand  37  690 

Dark   slate   62  752 

White  sand  25  777 

Shelly   slate    188  965 

White     sand     (Beaver) — Gas     and      salt 

water 215  1180 

Black  slate  20  1200 

Sand  (Horton)  126  1326 

Dark  slate— Salt  water  12  1338 

White  sand  (not  all  sand)— Salt  water....     312  1650 

This  well  reaches  down  into  the  Mississippi  System,  but  does  not 

touch  the  Big  Lime.  It  is  impossibe  to  note  the  change  from  the 
Pottsville  into  the  Mauch  Chunk,  as  the  driller  did  not  record  the  break 
in  the  last  312  feet. 


LOG  NO.  377. 

J.  M.  CONLEY  FARM. 
Head  of  Salt  Lick  of  Right  Beaver. 

Depth 


52 
72 
74 
119 
122 
145 
194 
248 
295 
345 
393 
438 
468 


Strata 
Drift 

Thickness 

22 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 
Slate 

30 

Sand 

20 

Coal 

2 

Dark   slate                                 .  ... 

45 

Gray  sand                             ..  .. 

3 

Dark   slate 

23 

White  sand  

49 

Slate  

54 

White  sand  

47 

Dark   si  ate  

50 

White  sand        , 

48 

Dark   slate 

45 

White  sand 

30 

RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS 


357 


Dark  slate   70 

Gray  and  white  sand  (Beaver-Horton) 300 

Coal   2 

Dark   slate   39 

Gray  and  white  sand  (Pipe) — salt  water..  105 

Dark  slate  25 

Gray    sand    : 15 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Slate 156 

White  sand  (Maxon)— oil  and  salt  water  28 


538 

838 

840 

879 

984 

1009 

1024 


1180 
1208 


LOG  No.  378. 


WEBB 'FARM. 
Right  Beaver  above  Jones  Fork. 


Strata  Thickness  Depth 

Soil   35                         35 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Coal    5                         40 

Sand 40                         80 

Black    slate 80  160 

Light  slate  70  230 

Coal   3  233 

Slate  and  sand 207  440 

White  sand  (Beaver)  40  480 

Slate    20  500 

White  sand   (Horton)— gas,  oil  and  salt 

water  220  720 

Slate  5  725 

Sand  (Pike)— salt  water  127  852 

Slate    „ 35  887 

Black  sand  25  912 

White  sand  (Bradley  stray) 94  1006 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 
Black  slate. 


LOG  No.  379. 

WM.  TRIPLETT  FARM. 
Jones  Fork  of  Right  Beaver. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

Sand  and  gravel  31  31 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Slate    9  40 

Coal   3  43 

Slate  and  shells  80  123 

Black  shale  ...           27  150 


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Sand    

Slate 

Sand    

Black  slate  and  shells 

Sand — Gas 

Slate  

Sand    (Beaver)    

Slate   

Sand    (Horton)    


50 

30 

20 

150 

10 

25 

180 

30 

130 

Slate  and  sand  100 

Sand  (Pike)— black  oil  at  990 110 


MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  slate  

Slate  and  shells  

Sand  (Maxon)  


200 
230 
250 
400 
410 
435 
615 
650 
780 
880 


1000 
1051 
1096 


LOG  No.  380. 


LINDSAY  TRIPLETT  FARM. 
Jones  Fork  of  Right  Beaver. 


Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

Soil    36  36 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Slate    6  42 

Black  sand  160  202 

Gray  sand  110  312 

Slate  and  shells  160  472 

Gray  sand  (Beaver)  100  572 

Slate   5  577 

White  sand  (Horton) — salt  water  203  780 

Slate  and  shells  75  855 

Black  sand  20  875 

Slate   25  900 

White  sand   (Pike)   *  125  1025 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Slate  .". 25  1050 

White  sand  (Maxon)  75  1125 

Slate   20  1145 

White  sand    (Maxon)    30  1175 

Black  slate  5  1180 

White  sand  (Maxon) — salt  water  32  1212 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS  359 

LOG  No.  381.  WM.  INMAN  FARM. 

Rock  Fork  of  Right  Beaver. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

Soil    24  24 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Slate   30  54 

Sand   12  66 

S:ate   19  85 

Coal   2  87 

S:ate  45  132 

Sand   15  147 

Slate   : 41  188 

Sand— salt  water 45  233 

Slate  68  301 

Sand    8  309 

Slate  127  436 

Sand    20  456 

Slate  6  462 

Sand   18  480 

Slate   8  488 

White  sand  ~|                                 79  567 

Slate               KBeaver)                 3  570 

White  sand  J                 Gas  and  salt  water  115  685 

Slate   2  687 

Sand   22  709 

Slate  38  747 

White    and    gray    sands     (Horton) — salt 

water  124  871 

Black  s'.ate  2  873 

Gray  sand — oil  show  20  893 

Black  slate  2  895 

White  sand  (Pike)— salt  water 121  1016 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  slate 35  1051 

White  sand  (Maxon)— oil  and  salt  water  106  1157 

LOG  No.  382.  ESTHER  HORTON  FARM.  r, 

Rock  Fork  of  Right  Beaver. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

Soil   21  21 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Slate    100  121 

Sand   14  135 

Slate  41  176 

Sand 36  212 

S.ate  3  215 

Sand   35  250 

Slate   ...                                                             .  151  401 


360                 OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES   OF  KENTUCKY 

Sand    9  410 

Slate   35  445 

White  sand  (Beaver)   213  658 

Coal    2  660 

Sani   30  690 

Coal    2  692 

Slate  31  723 

Sand   (Horton)— oil  89  812 

Slate  12  824 

Black    sand 11  835 

Black  slate  9  844 

Sand   13  857 

Slate  5  862 

White  sand  (Pike)  gas,  oil  and  salt  water  ,  136  998 
MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  s:ate  17  1015 

Sand  (Maxon)— gas  124  1139 

LOG  No.  383.  ANDY  COBURN  FARM. 

Rock  Fork  of  Right  Beaver. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

Drift    26  26 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Slate 38  64 

Sand   16  80 

Coal    6  86 

Slate    , 9  95 

Sand    20  115 

Slate  and  red  shale  145  260 

Coal   8  268 

Slate  67  335 

Sand   50  385 

Slate  77  462 

Sand    10  472 

S!ate  74  546 

Sand  (Beaver)— oil  and  gas  148  694 

Slate  14  708 

Sand  (Horton)— salt  water  115  823 

Slate  14  837 

Gray   sand     "]            salt   water 120  957 

Slate                 (,  (Pike)                  '.....  28  985 

White  sand    j                               126  1111 

Slate    35  1146 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Sand  and  slate  27  1173 

Gray  and  white  sands  (Maxon)  salt  water  31  1204 

Black  slate  18  1222 

White  sand  (Maxon)  salt  water 41  1263 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS  361 

LOG  No.  384.  ANDY  COBURN  FARM. 

Rock  Fork  of  Right  Beaver. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

Soil    20  20 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Slate  39  59 

Sand   21  80 

Slate  12  92 

Coal   8  100 

Sand   42  142 

Slate  48  190 

Sand   48  238 

Slate  242  480 

Sand  (Beaver) — gas  and  salt  water 228  708 

Slate  44  752 

Sand   20  772 

Slate— salt  water  16  788 

Sand—  (Horton)    63  851 

Black  slate  12  863 

Gray  sand 9  872 

Black   slate   9  881 

White  sand                                    52  933 

B'.ack  slate     I        (Pike)             4  937 

White  sand     J                               82  1019 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  slate  ~ 28  1047 

White  sand         -»                          51  1098 

Slate  and  shells  L     (salt  sand) 21  1119 

White  sand         J       salt  water 29  1148 

LOG  No.  385. 

ROCK  FORK  JUST  BELOW  BRUSHY  FORK.     W.  R.  BOLEN  NO.  1. 

Lessee,  Pennagrade  Oil  and  Gas  Co. 
Completed  July  1916.     Production  4,680,000  cu.  ft.  gas. 

Producing  Sand  "Big  Lime." 

Casing  Head  Elevation  950  Aneroid.    Total  Depth  1635  feet. 

Strata                                                          Thickness  Depth 

Drift  20  feet  10  inch  casing 20 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

White  sand  5  25 

Coal   5  30 

Dark   slate   .    120  150 

Dark  sand  8  inch  casing 30  180 

Slate   5  185 

Sand   30  215 

Coal   5  220 

Slate  ...                                   20  240 


362  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES   OF  KENTUCKY 

Sand    1 70  310 

Slate   15  325 

Sand   ..: 95  420 

Slate   15  435 

Sand    45  480 

Slate   280  760 

Sand    148  908 

Break   2  910 

Sand  (water  at  950)  80  990 

Break 10  1000 

Sand   (little  oil  at  1060  feet) 170  1170 

S!ate    - 10  1180 

Sand   40  1220 

Shale  20  1230 

Sand   40  1270 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

S:ate  30  1300 

"Maxon"    sand    (a    little    water    and    oil 

at    1305)    123  1423 

Black  slate  14  1437 

Sandstone,  light  sandy  13  1451 

Slate  and  shells  25  1476 

"Little"   lime   15  1491 

"Pencil  Cave"  shale  9  1500 

"Big   Lime"    

Gas  in  Big  Lime  at  1630 135  1635 

4,680,000  cu.  ft.  gas,  open  flow  540  pounds  Rock  Measure. 

We'l  completed  July,  1916. 

Not  shot. 

1440  6  5-8  inch  casing. 

1637  2  inch  tubing. 

Elevation  945  feet. 

A.  B.  Erode  and  Son,  Contractors. 

S.  L.  Anderson,  Driller. 

135  feet  is  not  the  full  thickness  of  the  "Big  Lime"  formation. 

KNOX  COUNTY. 

LOG  No.  386.  MADELINE  GRAY  FARM. 

Gray's  Station. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 
PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil   20  20 

Shale   80  100 

White    sand    215  315 

Black   sha!e   30  345 

Sand    .  150  495 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS 


363 


Shale   8 

Sand   *. 129 

Coal 3 

Sand    (base  of  Pottsvile)   275 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Red  shale 40 

Black   shale   20 

Sand   10 

Red  shale  25 

Black   shale   „..  24 

Red  shale   41 

Lime   10 

Black   shale   28 

Gray  lime — "Little  lime"  70 

Soft    shale    5 

White  lime      1                               90 

B:ack  lime                                     4 

Gray  lime                                       24 

Blue  lime            "Big  lime"          20 

Gray  lime                                       15 

White  lime                                      14 

Gray  lime                                       19 

Sand— "Big    Injun"    27 

Black  shale                   S                       24 

White  shaie                                           5 

Dark  shale                                             15 

Dark  sand                                               5 

Dark  shale                                               10 

Sand  and  shale               ,  (Waverly)  85 

Sand,  lime  and  shale    I 32 

Light  sand  15 

Light  shale                                            13 

Sand  and  sha'e                                        15 

Lime  and  shale                                     50 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale                                    120 

White  shale      (Devonian)          5 

Sand    5 

Light  shale  25 

Lime   2 

Light    sha'.e    30 

Shale  and  sand  48 

Light  shale  30 

Lime 5 

Light    shale    20 

gand    7 

Sand  and  sha'e  ...                                 12 


503 
632 
635 

910 

950 
970 
980 
1005 
1029 
1070 
1080 
1108 
1178 
1183 
1273 
1277 
1301 
1321 
1336 
1350 
1369 
1396 
1420 
1425 
1440 
1445 
1455 
1540 
1572 
1587 
1600 
1615 
1665 

1785 
1790 
1795 
1820 
1822 
1852 
1900 
1930 
1935 
1955 
1962 
1974 


364  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OP  KENTUCKY 

LOG  No.  387.  MALINDA  GRAY  FARM. 

Lynn  Camp  Creek. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 
PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil    20  20 

Shale  50  70 

Sand   48  118 

Shale   39  157 

Sand   25  182 

Shale   18  200 

Sand   40  240 

Shale   128  368 

Sand  (Jones  sand)  66  434 

(All  Pottsville). 

LOG  No.  388.  MALINDA  GRAY  FARM. 

Lynn  Camp  Creek. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Gravel  and  sand  20  20 

Sand   60  80 

Shale   82  162 

Sand   53  215 

Snale   51  266 

Sand   41  307 

Shale  123  430 

Sand        »                                        59  489 

Shale       I  (Jones)                         12  501 

Sand       J                                       101  602 

Coal  and  shale  108  721 

Sand   108  721 

(All  Pottsville). 

LOG  No.  389.  CALEB  POWERS  FARM. 

Near  Whitley  County  Line. 

Strata                                                          Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil   10  10 

Sand   15  25 

Shale   325  350 

Sand   45  395 

Slate  50  445 

Sand   (Jones)    (Beaver?) 200  645 

Slate   5  650 

Sand    (Horton?)    100  750 

Coal   4  754 

Slate   5  759 

Sand    (Pike?)    151  910 

(All  Pottsville). 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS  365 

LOG  No.  390. 

BRYANT  FARM. 
Near  Corbin. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

PENNSY'LVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Clay   16                         16 

Slate  and  shells  69                        85 

Coal   1                         86 

Sand   124  210 

Slate  and  shells  20  230 

Coal    3  233 

Slate  and  shells  17  250 

Sand   185  435 

Slate    15  450 

Sand   20  470 

Slate  2  472 

Sand   13  485 

Slate    5  490 

Sand  38  528 

Coal   7  533 

Slate    5  540 

Sand   55  595 

Slate  40  635 

Slate  and  shells  170  805 

Sand   15  820 

Slate  and  shells  30  850 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Red  rock  5  855 

Slate  5  860 

Red  rock  10  870 

Slate   and   shells   75  945 

Lime  10  955 

Slate 15  970 

Lime   : 15  985 

Slate  4  989 

Lime  3  992 

Slate    , 4  996 

Lime 6  1002 

Slate  3  1005 

Lime 285  1290 

Slate   75  1365 

Lime  15  1380 

Slate    ..  35  1415 


366  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES   OF  KENTUCKY 

LOG  No.  391. 

WELL  AT  BARBOURVILLE. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Dark  sha'e  90  90 

Sand   _ 125  215 

Dark   shale  25  240 

Sand  and  black  shale  25  265 

Sand    75  340 

Sand  and  black  shale 78  418 

Sand   42  460 

Sand  and  dark  shale  75  535 

Sand — oil  and  salt  water 55  580 

(All  Pottsville). 

WELL  AT  BARBOURVILLE. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil    23  23 

Sand   27  50 

Shale   45  95 

Slate  65  160 

Slate    and    shale    40  200 

Sandy  lime  '. 5  205 

Slate  and  shells  110  315 

Gray  lime   (?)   8  323 

Slate  27  350 

Sand    68  418 

Slate   2  420 

Sand— oil  at  430 45  465 

(All  Pottsville). 

LOG  No.  392. 

C.  P.  KENNEDY  FARM. 

East  of  Barbourville. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

Loam.  : 38  38 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  sand  22  60 

Coal    3  63 

Black  slate  7  70 

Gray  sand  15  85 

Black  slate  70  155 

Coal    4  159 

Black  slate  6  165 

Gray  sand  21  186 

Black  slate  19  205 

Gray  sand— oil   show  at  210 35  240 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS  367 

Black  slate  68  308 

Gray  sand  27  335 

Black  slate  15  350 

White  sand — oil  show  at  385  95  445 

Black    s:ate    18  463 

Gray  sand  107  570 

Black  slate  and  shells  25  595 

White   sand   75  670 

Black   shale   10  680 

Black  slate  40  720 

White  sand — salt  water  at  743 43  763 

Black  slate  37  800 

Brown  sand 60  860 

Black    shale   10  870 

White  sand  105  975 

Black  slate  47  1022 

White  sand  15  1037 

Black  slate  23  1060 

White  sand  (base   of    Pottsville) 15  1075 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Blue  lime 15  1090 

Red  rock  18  nos 

White   sand    5  1113 

Red  rock  32  1145 

Black  s'ate  and  shells  63  1208 

Red  rock  20  1228 

Blue  s'ate  32  1260 

Brown  sand — oil  show  at  1270 26  1286 

Blue  slate  24  1310 

Blue  lime  15  1325 

Blue  slate  65  1390 

Brown  lime — gas  show  at  1395 12  1402 

White   slate   10  1412 

White    iime — "Big    lime" — gas    show    at 

1470    143  1555 

S'ate  and  shells  260  1815 

Blue    "flint"   15  1830 

Gray  sand  55  1885 

White  slate  and  shells  20  1905 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black   shale   145  2050 

White  slate  and  shells  135  2185 

Pink  s'ate  55  2240 

White   slate   15  2255 

Red  rock  25  2270 

Slate  and  shells  230  2500 

Note:    Base  of  Devonian  undefined. 


368                 OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

LOG  No.  393. 

PAYNES  CREEK. 

Strata                                                          Thickness  Depth 
PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil     Q  Q 

Sand   14  20 

Black  shale  35  55 

Coal    3  58 

Slate  and  shale  25  83 

Sand   5  88 

Shale   20  108 

Sand   12  120 

Shale  and  slate  64  184 

Black  shale   18  202 

Sand  30  232 

Shale    150  382 

Sand   40  422 

Sand  and  slate  52  474 

(All  Pottsville). 

LOG  No.  394. 

PAYNES  CREEK. 

Strata                                                          Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil   12  12 

Sand   - 4  16 

Shale   4  20 

Sand   40  60 

Slate  115  175 

Sand  _ ~ 10  185 

Shale    127  312 

Sand    10  322 

Slate 18  340 

Sand   10  350 

Shale  60  410 

Sand   80  490 

Slate  20  510 

Sand   60  570 

Shale  38  608 

Sand   222  830 

Shale   35  865 

Sand  and  shale  50  915 

Coal   3  918 

Sand 32  950 

Shale  4  954 

Sand   49  1003 

(All  Pottsville). 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS  369 

LOG  No.  395.  WM.  CARNES  FARM. 

Road  Fork  of  Stinking  Creek. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Sand    ^ 29                         29 

Slate 21                        50 

Lime  and  sand  50  100 

Coal   2  102 

Slate  and  lime  48  150 

Sand   - 25  175 

Slate  and  lime  50  200 

Coal   _ 6  206 

Slate  and  sand  69  275 

Slate    _  25  300 

Sand— gas  show  at  307 50  350 

Slate  and  lime  50  400 

Black  slate  55  455 

Broken  slate  20  475 

White  sand  115  590 

Slate  and  sand 40  630 

Sand   (base  of  Pottsville)   390  1020 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Black  lime   20  1040 

Sand   10  1050 

Black  lime  25  1075 

Sand   225  1300 

Slate  and  shells  60  1360 

Sand  and  lime  10  1370 

Red  rock  „ 15  1385 

Lime   and    shells   35  1420 

Sand    5  1425 

Red  rock  50  1475 

Shells   35  1510 

Slate  and  sand  50  1560 

Sand   35  1595 

Black  lime  15  1610 

LOG  No.  396.  J.  G.  BAKER  FARM. 

Stinking  Creek. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil    12                          12 

Coal    4                          16 

Lime    (?)    160  166 

Slate    200  366 

White    sand    74  440 

Slate    260  700 

Sand   (base  of  Pottsville)   400  1100 


370  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES   OF  KENTUCKY 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Shell   60  1160 

"Broken"    : 40  1200 

Lime   125  1325 

She:i    40  1365 

Sand— oil  show  at  1385  75  1440 

Slate  60  1500 

Red  rock  40  1540 

Red  rock  and  shale  160  1700 

Black  lime  , 50  1750 

Slate  47  1797 

LOG  No.  397.  E.  HAMMOND  FARM. 

Stinking  Creek. 

Strata                                                             Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil    20  20 

Slate   92  112 

Lime  (?)   5  117 

Sand   11  128 

White  sand  22  150 

Slate  - 140  290 

Sand   10  300 

Slate   and   shale 197  497 

Sand— oil  show  at  572  75  572 

Slate   153  725 

Sand    48  773 

B:ack  slate  10  783 

Sand— oil  show  at  826  67  850 

(All  Pottsville). 

LOG  No.  398.  ANTHONY  MILLS  FARM. 

Goose  Creek. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil    - 6  6 

Slate    1  7 

Gravel  9  16 

Slate   74  90 

Coal 7  97 

Fire-c'.ay 1  98 

Slate    55  153 

Sand    20  173 

Shale    10  183 

Slate    26  209 

Sand    15  224 

Slate    52  276 

Sand   7  283 

Slate   92  375 

Sand   14  389 

(All  Pottsville). 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS 


371 


LOG  No.  399. 


ANDERSON  FARM— No.  2. 
Big  Richland  Creek  near  R.  R.  Crossing. 


Strata 
PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil    .„ 

Shale  and  clay  

Shale   

Sand   

Shale  

Sand    

Shale   

Sand   ; 

Slate    :. 

Sand — oil  show  

(All  Pottsville). 


Thickness 

..  32 

..  28 

..  28 

..  12 

..  50 

..  43 

..  14 

..  15 
26 


Depth 
32 


100 
150 
193 
207 
222 
248 
256 


LOG  No.  400. 


ANDERSON  FARM— No.  3. 


Strata  Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil    22                          22 

Sand  15                        37 

Slate   55                          92 

Sand   51  143 

Slate  17  160 

Sand   20  180 

Shale   33  213 

Sand   15  228 

Slate   25  253 

Sand — gas   10  263 

Slate 12  275 

Sand    10  285 

S  ate    30  315 

Sand   40  355 

Slate   10  365 

Brown  shale  15  380 

Slate   ; 26  406 

Sand    22  428 

S  ate   16  444 

Sand    62  508 

Slate    9  517 

Sand    15  532 

(All  Pottsville). 


372  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES   OF  KENTUCKY 

LOG  No.  401. 

DECATUR  JACKSON  FARM. 
Big  Richland  Creek. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 
PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Clay   ! 10  10 

Sand   : 23  33 

Shale   167  200 

Sand — gas   10  210 

Shale   15  225 

Sand   20  245 

Shale 55  300 

Sand 22  322 

Shale   '     38  360 

Sand   (Jones) — salt  water  at  440 323  683 

Coal    2  685 

Sand   20  705 

(All  Pottsville). 


LOG  No.  402. 

ANDERSON  FARM— No.  4. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 
PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Drift    55  55 

Shale   35  90 

Sand   15  105 

Shale   10  115 

Sand   20  135 

Shale  12  147 

Sand   18  165 

Slate  and  shells  60  225 

Sand    9  234 

Slate    28  262 

Sand    5  267 

Shale 3  270 

Sand   10  280 

Slate  8  288 

Sand   7  295 

Slate   120  415 

Sand— oil  at  421 40  455 

Slate    17  472 

Sand— oil  show  at  497  and  514 49  521 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS  373 

LOG  No.  403. 

ANDERSON  FARM— No.  5. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Clay   19  19 

Sand   11  30 

Slate  and  shells  40  70 

Slate  25  95 

Sand   20  115 

Slate  and  shells  80  195 

Slate  and  sand  _ 45  240 

Slate   15  255 

Sand   19  274 

Slate   2  276 

Sand   14  290 

Slate  10  300 

Slate  and  shells  45  345 

Slate    37  382 

Sand    8  390 

Shale 27  417 

Sand   1  418 

Sand— oil  show  at  462 49  467 

Slate  8  475 

Sand 19  494 

Slate   20  514 

Sand— oil  at  521  26  540 

(The  wells  on  the  Anderson  farm  are  all  in  Pottsville). 


LOG  No.  404. 

LUCY  MILLER  FARM— No.  1. 

Near  Bailey  Switch. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Drift    10                          10 

Sand  and  shale  30                         40 

Shale    13                         53 

Sand 2                        55 

Shale   45  100 

Sand   25  125 

Sha'e             196  321 

Sand   15  336 

Shale   49  385 

Lime  10  395 

Sand   47  442 

Shale    12  454 

Sand   124  578 

Shale   ...                                      15  593 


374                 OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

Lime   4  597 

Shale   12  609 

Sand    56  665 

Coal    5  670 

Sand    92  762 

Shale  47  809 

Sand    71  880 

Shale   21  901 

Slate   19  920 

(Probably  all  Pottsville). 


LOG  No.  405. 

LUCY  MILLER  FARM— No.  3. 

Depth 

13 
22 
24 
125 
147 
220 
222 
38? 
264 
281 
329 
345 
350 


LOG  No.  406. 

LUCY  MILLER  FARM— No.  4. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Drift    19  19 

"Hard    pan"    4  23 

Slate  and  shells  87  110 

Sacd— oil  show  80  190 

S  ate   97  287 

Sand— oil  show 5  292 

Sha'e    48  340 

Sand   10  350 

Shale   15  365 

Slate   25  390 

Sand— oil  at  467.     Gas  at  392 82  472 

(Wells  on  the  Lucy  Miller  farm  all  in  Pottsville). 


Strata 
PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 
Sand  and  gravel 

Thick] 
13 

Slate 

9 

Coal 

2 

Slate  and  shells  

101 

Sand  —  oi'   show 

oo 

Slate  and  she  Is  

73 

Slate 

2 

Sand  —  oil 

10 

Slate 

32 

Sand 

17 

Slate 

48 

Sand 

16 

Slate    .. 

5 

RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS 


375 


LOG  No.  407. 


W.  M.  GILBERT  FARM. 
Big  Rich'.and  Creek. 


Thickness 


.     120 


Strata 
PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Sand    

Shale   

Coal   6 

Sand    18 

Shale   66 

Sand — salt  water  25 

Shale   133 

Sand  (Jones)— oil  at  445  67 


Depth 

60 
180 
186 
204 
270 
295 
428 
495 


LOG  No.  408. 

DECATUR  JACKSON  FARM. 

Big  Richland  Creek. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Clay    10                          10 

Shale  and  sand  22                         32 

Slate  and  shale  173  205 

Sand    11  216 

Slate   14  230 

Sand   10  240 

Sha'.e  and  shells  60  300 

Slate    60  360 

Sand                                                   125  485 

Slate                         I  (Jones)        6  491 

Sand— salt  water  f  54  545 

Slate   25  570 

Sand   - : 30  600 


LOG  No.  409. 

JOHN  J.  DISNEY  FARM. 

Big  Rich'and  Creek. 

Strata  Thickness 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil    15 

Slate   - 35 


5 

45 

140 

20 

5 

10 

Shale   85 

Sand  (Jones) — oil,  gas  and  salt  water 200 


Sand    

Slate    

Shale   

Sand  (Wages)— oil  show 

Shale    

Sand    


Depth 

15 

50 

55 
100 
240 
260 
265 
275 
360 
560 


376  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES   OF  KENTUCKY 

LOG  No.  410.  JOHN  J.  DISNEY  FARM. 

Big  Richland  Creek. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil    15  15 

Slate 40  55 

Sand    10  65 

Sand  and  shale  (Wages)  260  325 

Shale  70  395 

Sand  (Jones)  235  630 

LOG  No.  411.  J.  W.  DISNEY  FARM. 

Big  Richland  Creek. 

Strata                                                          Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Sand 30  30 

Shale   200  230 

Sand — water    12  242 

Shale   25  267 

Sand — Gas  and  oil  30  297 

Shale   50  347 

Sand   20  367 

Shale   53  420 

Sand   35  455 

Shale    30  485 

Sand   130  615 

Shale   30  645 

Sand   „ 10  655 

LOG  No.   412.  MOSS  FARM. 

Parrot  Branch  of  Big  Rich'and. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 
PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil    18  18 

Sand   15  33 

Shale  87  120 

Sand . 55  175 

Shale  and  shells  51  236 

Sand   22  258 

Shale   _ 22  280 

Sand   10  290 

Shale — gas  5  295 

Sand — oil    7  302 

Shale — gas  at  380  123  425 

Sand — oil  show  at  470  and  530 114  539 

Salt  water  at  535. 

(The  records  on  Big  Richland  are  all  in  Pottsville). 


LOG  No.  413. 


RECORDS  OP  DRILLED  WELLS 

DOZIER  FARM. 
Fighting  Creek. 


377 


Strata  Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Sand   16  16 

Shale 25  41 

Coal   3  44 

Black  shale  123  167  - 

Lime  (?)  23  190 

Sand   (Wages)   _ 35  225 

Lime  (?)  15  240 

Slate    120  360 

Sand   (Jones)  100  460 

Slate    15  475 

Sand    (Epperson)   250  725 

Coal 2  727 

Sand    (Salt)    ...                                                .  173  900 


LOG  No.  414. 


THOMAS  POINDEXTER  FARM. 
Fighting  Creek. 


Strata  Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil  and  gravel  30  30 

B'.ue    shale   20  50 

Coal    3  53 

Shale   7  60 

White  fand 40  100 

Black  slate  20  120 

Slate  and  shells  72  192 

Gray  sand 12  204 

Shale  25  229 

White   sand   10  239 

Slate   and   shells    30  269 

Sand 94  363 

Slate  and  shells  70  433 

White   sand 12  445 

Black  slate  10  455 

Coal 4  459 

Shale   16  475 

Sand    ..  39  514 


378  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES   OF  KENTUCKY 

LOG  No.  415.  JAMES  BRINDSTAFF  FARM. 

Fighting  Creek. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil    10  10 

Gray  sand  45  55 

Blue  slate  6  61 

White    sand    12  73 

Slate  and  shell  17  90 

Blue  shale  20  110 

Slate  and  shell  82  192 

Black  sand  10  202 

Slate  and  shells  16  218 

White  sand— oil   show   57  275 

Slate,  shale  and  shells  60  335 

Sand  (Jones)— oil  at  448  and  471 166  501 

LOG  No.  416.  JAMES  BRINDSTAFF  FARM. 

Fighting  Creek. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil    10  10 

Sand    55  65 

Brown    shale    100  165 

White  sand  8  173 

Brown  shale  22  195 

Slate  and  shells  23  218 

White   sand   57  275 

Slate,   shale  and   shells 60  335 

Sand  (Jones)— oil  at  448  and  471 166  501 

LOG  No.  417.  JAMES  BRINDSTAFF  FARM. 

Fighting  Creek. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

10 
65 
165 
173 
195 
281 
330 
342 
362 
372 
392 
White  sand  (Jones)  ...  88  480 


Clay   

10 

Sand   

55 

Brown  shale  

100 

White  sand  

8 

Brown  shale  

22 

White   sand    

86 

Brown    shale    

49 

White  sand  

12 

White   slate   :.     ... 

20 

White    sand 

10 

Brown    shale    

20 

RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS 


379 


LOG  No.  418. 


MOLLIE  MANISS  FARM. 


Fighting  Creek. 
Strata 
PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Clay 

Shale   

Coal   

Shale   

Sand   

Slate    

Coal  

Shale   

Sand   

Shale    

Sand   .. 


Thickness 

..  10 
..  15 

1 

..  34 
..  30 
..  13 

7 

..  80 
..  55 

4 
.  106 


Shale — oil 35 


Depth 

10 

25 

26 

60 

90 
103 
110 
190 
245 
249 
355 
390 


LOG  No.  419.  JAMES  GOODIN  FARM. 

Fighting  Creek. 

Strata                                                             Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Quicksand    15  15 

Lime   (?)  45  60 

Slate    35  95 

Black  slate  50  145 

Lime    (?)    25  170 

White   slate   25  195 

Black  slate 20  215 

Sand   62  277 

White  shale  38  315 

Black  slate  35  350 

Sand    60  410 

Slate  .     6  416 

Sand   16  432 

Slate— salt  water  _. 6  438 

LOG  No.  420.  JAMES  GOODIN  FARM. 

Fighting  Creek. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Sand   15  15 

Slate   8  23 

Sand    19  42 

S:ate    30  72 

gan(j   18  90 

Dark   shale  ...                                          65  155 


380  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES   OF  KENTUCKY 

Lime    (?)    15  170 

Brown    shale   20  190 

Lime  (?)  ., 10  200 

Black   shale   7  207 

Sand  :. 61  268 

Slate 80  348 

Sand   40  388 

Slate  42  430 

Sand   54  484 

LOG  No.  421. 

MARY  BARTELLOW  FARM. 

Fighting  Creek. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 
PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Clay   18  18 

Shale 180  198 

Lime  (?)  25  223 

Sand   1 90  313 

Shale    105  418 

Sand    (Jones)— oil  30  448 

LOG  No.  422. 

H.  P.  MARTIN  FARM. 

Fighting  Creek. 

Strata                                                          Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Clay    '. 20  20 

Sand  30  50 

Shale  60  110 

Sand   20  130 

Slate  _ 70  200 

Sand   90  290 

Slate    40  330 

Sand — gas    80  410 

Slate   15  425 

Sand— salt  water  398  823 

LOG  No.  423. 

H.  P.  MARTIN  FARM. 

Fighting  Creek. 

Strata                                                          Thickness  Depth 
PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Sand   35  35 

Lime  (?)   5  40 

Shale   200  240 

Sand   , 15  255 

Shale    ..  50  305 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS 


381 


Sand   .... 
Shale    ... 

Sand    

Shale  .... 
Sand   .. 


40 

60 

100 

40 

.  132 


345 
405 
505 
545 
677 


These  well  records  on  Fighting  Creek  are  all  in  Pottsville. 


LOG  No.  424. 

SI  JONES  FARM— No.  1. 
Little  Richland  Creek. 

Jones  "Gusher." 

Strata                                                          Thickness  Depth 
PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Clay    8  8 

Slate    _ 30  38 

Sand— Black  oil  show  70  108 

Slate     - w 100  208 

Sand    .: 20  228 

Slate 70  298 

Sand    .• 8  306 

Slate    44  350 

Sand    (Jones) — oil   30  380 

LOG.  No.  425. 

SI  JONES  FARM— No.  2. 
Little  Richland  Creek. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

C;ajr      30  30 

Slate    ,. - 190  220 

Sand    10  230 

Slate  150  380 

Sand  (Jones)— Oil   80  460 

Slate  40  500 

Sand  120  620 

LOG.  No.  426. 

SI  JONES  FARM— No.  3. 
Little  Richland  Creek. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil    y 22 

Sand    ~ 10 

Slate    342  374 

Sand    - 

Shale     -. 2  381 

Sand    (Jones)    12  393 


3S2  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES   OF  KENTUCKY 

LOG  No.  427. 

SI  JONES  FARM— No.  4. 
Little  Richland  Creek. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 
PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil    7  7 

Sand    10  17 

Slate    69  86 

Sand    9  95 

Sand — Oil   show   18  113 

Coal    1  114 

Shale    121  235 

Slate    2S  260 

Sand    (Jones)    207  467 

Slate    86  553 

Sand    ,. 55  608 


LOG  No.  428. 

SI  JONES  FARM— No.  6. 
Little  Richland  Creek. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil  and  sand  10  10 

Shale    30  40 

Sand    10  50 

Shale    i 30  80 

Sand — Gas    ± 8  88 

Black    sha!e    172  260 

Sand    10  270 

Shale 167  437 

20  457 


LOG  No.  429. 

SI  JONES  FARM— No.  7. 
Little  Richland  Creek. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Clay    ......... 10                          10 

Sand    8                         18 

Shale     85  103 

Sand    , 10  113 

Shale    270  383 

Sand    (Jones)    37  420 


PENNSY'LVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Clay    

10 

Sand    

20 

Black    slate    

20 

Sand—  thick   oil    

10 

Black    siate    

100 

Sand    

10 

Black    slate    

80 

Sand 

10 

Black    slate    

180 

Sand    

15 

Black   slate    .. 

16 

RECORDS  OP  DRILLED  WELLS  38 

LOG  No.  430. 

SI  JONES  FARM— No.  8. 
Little  Richland  Creek. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

10 
30 
50 
60 
160 
170 
250 
260 
440 
455 
471 


LOG  No.  431. 

SI  JONES  FARM— No.  9. 
Little  Richland  Creek. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Clay    18  18 

Shale    430  448 

Sand    and    shale    21  469 

Shale    ..  13  482 


LOG  No.  432. 

SI  JONES  FARM— No.   10. 
Little  Richland  Creek. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 
PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Clay  4  4 

Sand    26  30 

Shale    50  80 

Sand    12  92 

Shale    73  165 

Sand    20  185 

Slate    40  225 

Hard   shale   75  300 

Slate    190  490 

Sand    (Jones?)— oil    show 10  500 

Slate    ..                                                         51  551 


384  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES   OF  KENTUCKY 

LOG  No.  433. 

SI  JONES  FARM— No.  11. 

Little  Richard  Creek. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 
PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Clay   and   sand   35  35 

Slate   115  150 

Sand    , 20  170 

Slate    55  225 

Sand    10  235 

Slate 11  246 

Sand    8  254 

Slate    - 71  325 

Sand    8  233 

Slate  and  shale  69  402 

Sand  (Jones)— Oil  and  gas  33  435 


LOG  No.  434. 

SI  JONES  FARM— No.  12. 
Little  Richland  €reek. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Clay    26  26 

Slate    132  158 

Sand    17  175 

Slate    61  236 

Sand    12  248 

Slate    90  338 

Sand    12  350 

Slate  and  shale  75  425 

SandO  Oil    70  495 

Slate  L(Jones)    5  500 

Sand  I  Oil    15  515 

Shale    35  550 

Sand    25  575 

Sha!e    _ 50  625 

Sand— Oil    24  649 

Slate    ...  1  650 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS 


LOG  No.  435. 


JOSEPH  A.   MILLEiR  FARM 
Little  Richland  Creek 


Strata  Thickness 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil    15 

Sand    ..  25 


-.Vhite    slate    

Brown    sale 

Slate    

Sand — Oil    show    

Slate    

Sand    

Slate    

Black  slate — Gas  and  salt  water 
Sand    (Jones)    ... 


Depth 

15 

40 

60 

80 
140 
150 
245 
260 
290 
295 
363 


LOG  No.  436. 


JOSEPH  A.  MILLER  FARM. 
Littfe  Richland  Creek. 


Thickness 


Strata 
PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil  20 

Shale  ....  20 


Sand  

Shale    

Sand  

Shale 

Sand  (Jones) 


31 
183 
18 
36 


Depth 

20 

40 

71 
254 
272 
308 
340 


LOG  No.  437. 


JOSEPH  A.  MILLER  FARM. 
Litt'e  Richland  Creek. 


Strata 
PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil  

Shale 

Sand  

Shale 

Sand  

Shale 

Sand  (Jones) 


Thickness 


Depth 

26 

46 

70 
270 
232 
301 
308 


Oil  &  Gas— 13 


286  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES   OF  KENTUCKY 

LOG  No.  438. 

JOSEPH  A.  MILLER  FARM. 
Little  Richland  Creek. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil  25  25 

Shale 21  46 

Sand  23  69 

Shale 204  273 

Sand  15  288 

Shale 20  308 

Sand  (Jones)  32  340 


LOG  No.  439. 

JOSEPH  A.  MILLER  FARM. 
Little  Richland  Creek. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil  27  27 

Shale 15  42 

Sand  20  62 

Shale 180  242 

Sand  41  283 

Shale 28  311 

Sand  (Jones)  _ 64  375 


LOG  No.  440. 

JOSEPH  A.  MILLER  FARM. 
Little  Richland  Creek. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Clay „ 28  28 

Sand  42  70 

Shale _ _.  85  155 

Sand  30  185 

Shale _ _...  95  280 

Sand  18  298 

Shale _ 32  330 

Sand    (Jones)    ..  72  402 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS 


387 


LOG  No.  441. 

JOHN  WAGES  FARM. 
Little  Richland  Creek. 

Strata  Thickness 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Clay    .............................  +  .....  ,.  .............................        9 

Shale    ..................................................................      30 

Sand—  black   oil  ..............................................      15 

Slate    ..................................................................      50 

Sand    ...........................  j.  .........  ............................      20 

Slate    ..................................................................      20 


Sand—  01 


18 


Depth 


39 
54 
104 
124 
144 
162 


LOG  No.  442. 

JOHN  WAGES  FARM. 

Littfe  Richland  Creek. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil    ». 10  10 

Shale   145  155 

Sand    4.....* 5  160 


LOG  No.  443. 

JOHN  WAGES  FARM. 
Littfe  Richland  Creek. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Clay    15  15 

Slate    120  135 

Siand — oil    ..  15  150 


LOG  No.  444. 

JOHN  WAGES  FARM. 
Littr e  Richland  Creek. 

Strata  Thickness 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Clay     x... 

Sand    - 

Shale 

Sand    - 

iShale 

Sand    ..  •. 


Sand    (Jones)    .... 
Slate 


18 
5 

120 
20 
97 
18 
27 
92 
4 


Depth 

18 

23 
143 
163 
260 
278 
305 
398 
402 


388  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES   OF  KENTUCKY 

LOG  No.  445.  JOHN  WAGES  FARM. 

Litt'e  Richland  Creek. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil    10  10 

Sand    51  61 

Shale    < 110  171 

Sand— oil    at    182    65  236 

Shale    : 10  246 

Sand    ., 11  257 

Shale    63  320 

Sand   (Jones)— oil  at  322  and  336 50  370 

LOG  No.  446.  JOHN  WAGES  FARM. 

Little  Richland  Creek. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil    + 9  9 

Sand    •. 49  58 

Shale    '  112  170 

Sand — oil    show    28  198 

Shale    110  308 

Sand    (Jones) — oil   show  92  400 

Shale    

LOG  No.  447.  RALPH  MAYS  FARM. 

Littfe  Richland  Creek. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 
PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil    , 35  35 

Sand    10  45 

Black   shale   155  200 

Slate  and   shale  85  285 

Sand    (Jones)— oil    57  342 

LOG  No.  448. 

MARY  F.  HUGHES  FARM. 

Littie  Richland  Creek. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 
PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil    18  18 

Shale    _ , 264  282 

Sand    :. 110  392 

Black    slate    46  438 

Sand    162  600 

Black  slate  3  603 

Sand   ..                                                                      8  611 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS 


389 


Black    slate    40 

White   sand   85 

Black  slate  7 

Blue  lime  and  sand  4 

White   sand   62 

Black    slate    5 

Blue   slate 65 

Lime  and  sand  ...                                          .  182 


651 
736 
743 
747 
809 
814 
879 
1061 


LOG  No.  449. 

MARY  F.  HUGHES  FARM. 

Littfe  Richland  Creek. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Clay   10  10 

Sand    12  22 

Slate    w 168  190 

Sand — oil    show    : 100  515 

Slate  60  350 

Sand    (Jones)    165  515 


LOG  No.  450. 

N.  B.  JONES  FARM. 
Littfe  Richland  Creek. 

Strata                                                             Thickness  Depth 
PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Clay   25  25 

Sand    23  48 

Shale    100  148 

Sand    _ 60  208 

Shale    50  258 

Sand   25  283 

Shale   19  302 

Sand    (Jones?)— oil   20  322 

LOG  No.  451. 

N.  B.  JONES  FARM. 
Littfe  Richland  Creek. 

Strata                                                          Thickness  Depth 
PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Clay   15  15 

Sand    70  85 

Shale   90  175 

Sand   : 27  202 

Sha'.e   22  224 

Sand   59  283 

Shale    52  335 

Sand    (Jones)— oil   69  404 


390  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES   OF  KENTUCKY 

LOG  No.  452.  N.  B.  JONES  FARM. 

Littfe  Richland  Creek. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Clay    35  35 

Sand   40  75 

Shale   90  165 

Sand   65  230 

Shale   -.      30  260 

Sand   20  280 

Shale    30  310 

Sand  (Jones)  88  398 

LOG  No.  453.  N.  B.  JONES  FARM. 

Littfe  Richland  Creek. 

Strata                                                            Thicknes  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Clay   25  25 

Sand    40  65 

Shale   100  165 

Sand   45  210 

Shale    80  290 

Sand    32  322 

Shale  13  335 

Sand  (Jones?)  37  372 

LOG  No.  454.  J.  W.  MILLS  FARM. 

Littfe  Richland  Creek. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 
PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil  and  shale  170  170 

Sand   25  195 

Shale   110  305 

Sand    (Jones?)    45  350 

LOG  No.  455.  J.  W.  MILLS  FARM. 

Littf.e  Richland  Creek. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Clay   5  5 

Sand   107  112 

Shale   50  162 

Sand    40  202 

Shale    70  272 

Sand    22  294 

Shale    3  297 

Sand   ..                                                                    13  310 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS 


391 


LOG  No.  456. 


J.  W.  MILLS  FARM. 
Littfe  Richland  Creek. 


Thickness 


Strata 
PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Clay   28 

Sand   20 

Shale   100 

Sand    45 

Shale    107 

Sand    (Jones)    19 


Depth 


48 
168 
213 
320 
339 


LOG  No.  457. 


J.  W.  MILLS  FARM. 
Litt:e  Richland  Creek. 


Strata 
PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Clay   

Sand    

Shale   

Sand    

Sha'e   

Sand   

Shale    .. 


Thickness 


70 
70 
30 

.: 33 

Sand   (Jones)  .     121 


Depth 

27 

62 
122 
192 
262 
292 
325 
446 


LOG  No.   458. 


THOMAS  GIBSON  FARM. 
Little  Richland  Creek. 


Thickness 


Strata 
FENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Clay   3 

Sand   15 

Shale  15 

Sand    12 

Sha'  e    50 

Black   shale   45 

Sand   30 

Slate    110 

Sand    (Jones)    ..                                   20 


Depth 

3 

18 

33 

45 

95 
140 
170 
280 


392  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES   OF  KENTUCKY 

LOG  No.  459. 

THOMAS  GIBSON  FARM. 
Little  Richland  Creek. 


Strata 
PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 
Clay 

Thick: 
3 

Sand 

15 

Shale 

15 

Sand 

12 

Shale 

50 

Black   sha'e   

45 

Sand 

30 

Slate  

110 

Sand   (Jones)  —  eas  and  oil  ... 

83 

Depth 

3 

18 

33 

45 

95 
140 
170 
280 
363 


LOG  No.  460. 

THOMAS  GIBSON  FARM. 
Little  Richland  Creek. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 
PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil    10  10 

Sand   10  20 

Shale 140  160 

Sand    30  190 

Shale   90  280 

Sand  (Jones)  ...                                         68  348 


LOG  No.  461. 

THOMAS  GIBSON  FARM. 
Little  Richland  Creek. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 
PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil    25  25 

Shale    30  55 

Sand    5  60 

Shale    180  240 

Black  sand  5  245 

Shale    35  280 

Sand    (Jones)— oil 28  308 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS 


393 


LOG  No.  462. 

THOMAS  GIBSON  FARM. 

Little  Richland  Creek. 

Strata  Thickness 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 
Sand 


White   slate   

20 

White  sand  

20 

Black  slate  

60 

Sand    

40 

Black  slate  

85 

Sand    

15 

Black    slate    

20 

Sand    (Jones)  —  oil   

86 

LOG  No.  463. 

J.  K. 

PAYNE  FARM. 

Little 

Richland  Creek. 

Strata 

Thickness 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Quicksand    

10 

Sand   

70 

Shale    

20 

Sand    

30 

Shale   

50 

Sand    

55 

Shale    

45 

Black  sand  —  salt  water  . 

20 

Shale 

18 

Sand    

5 

Shale   

10 

Sand    (Jones?)  —  oil   

4 

Depth 

60 

80 
100 
160 
200 
285 
300 
320 
406 


Depth 

10 

80 
100 
130 
180 
235 
280 
300 
318 
323 
333 
337 


LOG  No.  464. 

J.  K.  PAYNE  FARM. 
Little  Richland  Creek. 

Strata  Thickness 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Quicksand    18 

Sand  -     132 

Shale  ...  30 


Sand  ... 

Shale  

Sand    

Shale  

Sand — salt  water 
Shale  


Depth 

18 
150 
180 
255 
270 


297 
327 


394  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

Sand — salt  water 13  340 

Shale  - 2  342 

Sand — salt  water 5  347 

Shale— oil  show  _ 8  355 

Sand  and  shale  15  370 

Sand  (Jones)— oil  11  381 

LOG  No.  465. 

J.  K.  PAYNE  FARM. 
Little  Richland  Creek. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 
PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Gravel    5  5 

Sand    30  35 

Shale   25  60 

Sand   25  85 

Shale   35  120 

Black   shale   40  160 

Shale   185  345 

Sand  (Jones)— oil  at  372 42  387 


LOG  No.  466. 

THOMAS  C.  BARNES  FARM. 

Little  Richland  Creek. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM- 

Clay    12  12 

Sha:e  and  shels  183  195 

Sand — oil  and  water , 27  222 

Shale— oil  58  280 

Sand   8  288 

Shale    47  335 

Sand    (Jones)— oil   25  360 


LOG  No.  467. 

THOMAS  C.  BARNES  FARM. 

Little  Richland  Creek. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil    16  16 

Shale    29  45 

Sand   15  60 

Shale   210  270 

Sand   20  290 

Shale   128  418 

Sand  (Jones)  53  471 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS 


395 


LOG  No.  468.  THOMAS  C.  BARNES  FARM. 

Little  Richland  Creek. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Quicksand 18                         18 

Slate  27                          45 

Sand    20                          65 

Slate  50  115 

Sand    20  135 

Slate    85  220 

Sand    8  228 

Shale   8  236 

Sand    25  261 

Shale    117  378 

Sand  (Jones) — oil  and  sa'.t  water  38  416 


LOG  No.  469. 


THOMAS  C.  BARNES  FARM. 


Little  Richland  Creek. 


Strata 
PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil    

Shale    

B  ack  slate  

White    sand    

Shale    

Black  sand  

Black    slate 

Sand  

Shale    .. 


Thickness 

..  20 

..  50 

..  40 

..  20 

..  50 

..  10 

..  140 

..  10 
35 


Sand    (Jones)    30 


Depth 

20 

70 
110 
130 
180 
190 
330 
340 
375 
405 


LOG  No.  470.  THOMAS  C.  BARNES  FARM. 

Little  Richland  Creek. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Clay    20  20 

Shale    20  40 

Sand    15  55 

S  ate  and   shale   124  179 

Sand    15  194 

Slate    66  260 

Sand   12  272 

Slate  73  345 

Shale    5  350 

Slate    48  398 

Sand    (Jones)— oil 40  438 


396  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES   OF  KENTUCKY 

LOG  No.  471. 

THOMAS  C.  BARNES  FARM. 

Little  Richland  Creek. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 
PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Clay 16  16 

Slate  and   shale   184  200 

Sandy  shale  17  217 

Slate    83  300 

Sand— oil    10  310 

Slate    45  355 

Sand  (Jones)— oil  18  373 

LOG  No.  472. 

THOMAS  C.  BARNES  FARM. 

Little  Richland  Creek. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Clay    20  20 

Sand 30  50 

Slate    131  181 

Sand    15  193 

Slate    44  240 

Sand    20  260 

Slate    35  295 

Sand    15  310 

S]ate    74  384 

Sand   (Jones) 69  453 

LOG  No.  473. 

ELLEN  JONES  FARM. 
Little  Richland  Creek. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Clay  56  56 

Slate   87  143 

Sand    10  153 

Shale    242  395 

Sand    (Jones)— oil   15  410 

LOG  No.  474. 

ELLEN  JONES  FARM. 
Little  Richland  Creek. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Sand    26  26 

Slate    54  80 

Sand    10  90 

Shale    ..  38  128 


RECORDS   OF  DRILLED  WELLS 


397 


Slate 
Sand 
Shale 
Sand 
Sha:e 


Slate    103 

Sand   (Jones) — oil  and  gas  64 


160 
175 
190 
205 

277 
380 
444 


LOG  No.  475. 

ELLEN  JONES  FARM. 
Little  Richland  Creek. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 
PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Sand    18  18 

Shale    87  105 

Sand    6  111 

Sha'e   87  198 

Sand    28  226 

Shale    142  268 

Sand  (Jones)— oil  36  304 

LOG  No.  476. 

ELLEN  JONES  FARM. 
Little  Richland  Creek. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 
PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Clay    20  20 

Sand    15  35 

Slate  and  shale  45  80 

Sand    15  95 

Slate  and  shale  310  405 

Sand  (Jones) — oil  show  and  sa't  water....      39  444 

Slate   ...                                                                     1  445 


LOG  No.  477. 

HENRY  JACKSON  FARM. 
Long  Branch  of  Richland  Creek. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Clay   13  13 

Sand   24  37 

Shale   98  135 

Sand   15  150 

Shale  95  245 

Sand    30  275 

Shale    15  290 

Sand   (Jones?)  101  391 


398  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

LOG  No.  478.  HENRY  JACKSON  FARM. 

Long  Branch  of  Richland  Creek. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Clay    30  30 

Sand    35  65 

Shale   70  135 

Sand    140  275 

Shale    24  299 

Sand   (Jones?)  99  398 

LOG  No.  479.  GEORGE  JONES  FARM. 

Caleb  Branch  of  Richland  Creek. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Clay  10  10 

Sand    40  50 

Shale  250  SOO 

Sand   50  350 

Shale   85  435 

Sand  (Jones?)— oil  92  527 

LOG  No.  480.  GEORGE  JONES  FARM. 

Caleb  Branch  of  Richland  Creek. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 
PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Shale   355 .  355 

Sand    30  385 

Slate    115  500 

Sand   (Jones?)— oil  show  at  525  100  600 

LOG  No.  481.  MESSAMORE  FARM. 

Trace  Branch  of  Little  Richland. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil    6  6 

Shale    144  150 

Sand    15  165 

Slate   5  170 

Sand   10  180 

Slate  and  shale  75  255 

Sand    22  277 

Shale    21  298 

Sand— gas    11  309 

Black  slate  and  sandy  shale  21  330 

Sand— oil    52  382 

Shale    70  452 

Sand    ..                                                                      24  476 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS 


399 


LOG  No.  482.  JOHN  BERRY  FARM. 

6  Miles  N.  of  Barbourville. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil  10                         10 

Sand 30                         40 

Shale    300  340 

Sandy  shale  20  360 

Shale    40  400 

Sand    20  420 

Sandy  shale  110  530 

Sand   160  690 

Sandy   slate   30  720 

Sand    76  796 

Slate    4  800 

Sand   102  902 

Black   shale   40  942 

White  sand  (base  of  Pottsville)  30  972 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Black  lime  12  984 

Sand  35  1019 

Lime  and  sand  45  1064 

Sand   11  1075 

Sand  and  shale  30  1105 

Pink   shale   10  1115 

Sha.e  and  shells  170  1285 

Sand    38  1323 

Lime  and  shale  89  1412 

White    lime    124  1536 

Sandy  lime — oil  show 2  1538 

White  lime  147  1685 

Black  lime   71  1756 

Red   rock   36  1792 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Blue    shale   125  1917 

Black   lime  10  1927 

White  lime  124  2051 

Black  lime   43  2094 

LOG  No.  483.  S.  H.  JONES  FARM. 

Near  Cannon  P.  O. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil    10                          10 

Sand— oil  show  at  107 151  161 

Shale  44  205 

Sand— oil    show    1  206 

Sandy  shale  84  290 

Slate    80  370 


400                  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES   OF  KENTUCKY 

Sand   8  378 

Shale    112  490 

Coal    (?)    10  500 

Sand— oil  show  at  609 177  677 

Black  slate  41  718 

Sand — oil  show  at  748  84  802 

Coal   6  808 

Lime  and  shale  28  836 

Sand 39  875 

Black  slate  64  939 

Sand  5  944 

Liine  11  955 

Sand   62  1017 

Slate    10  1027 

Sand — salt  water  90  1117 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Black  slate  5  1122 

Slate  and  shells  68  1290 

Sand   35  1325 

Lime  and  sha'.e  120  1445 

White  lime  130  1575 

"Gas  sand"  38  1613 

Lime    12  1625 

LOG  No.  484.  M.  E.  COLE  FARM. 

Near  Cannon  P.  O. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil    15  15 

Sand 35  50 

Shale   85  135 

Coal    5  140 

Black   shale   10  150 

Sand    25  175 

Shale  30  205 

Sand    153  358 

Shale    6  364 

Sand    11  375 

Black   shale   20  395 

Shale    130  525 

Sand 67  592 

Black  slate 94  686 

Lime 24  710 

Sand    58  768 

Lime  and  shale  31  799 

Lime    56  855 

With  a  few  exceptions  all  the  wells  on  Little  Richland  are 
entirely  in  the  Pottsville. 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS 


401 


LAEUE  COUNTY. 

LOG  No.  485.  WM.  BROWN  FARM. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Soil    2  2 

Lime    218  220 

Blue  shale  160  380 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black   shale   60  440 

Lime    10  450 

Sand   (?)— salt  water  49  499 

Pink   shale   31  530 

Black  lime   90  620 

White  shale  5  625 

Lime   5  630 

Sand   (?)    10  640 

Slate   40  680 

Lime — sa't  water  70  750 

Black  lime  170  920 

Base  of  Devonian  indefinite. 

LOG  No.  486.  McDANIEL  FARM. 

6y2  miles  E.  of  Hodgenviile. 

Strata                                                          Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Hard  lime  50  50 

Limy    shale    55  105 

Soft  shale  60  165 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale— gas   55  220 

Porous  lime— salt  water  19  239 

Lime    11  250 

Sha'y   lime   20  270 

Lime    5  275 

LOG  No.  487.  VIRGIL  HOLLAND  WELL. 

6  miles  E.  of  Hodgenville. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Mud    48  48 

Limy  shale  2  50 

Soft  shale  40  90 

Lime   15  105 

Li.ny  shale  10  115 

Lime    35  130 

Limy  shale  50  200 

Lime    275  475 

Soft  shale  ...                   45  520 


402                 OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES   OF  KENTUCKY 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale — gas   58  578 

Hard  lime  6  584 

Porous  iime — salt  water  10  594 

Soft  shaly  lime  41  635 

Crystalline  lime   20  655 

Shaly  lime  101  756 

White  porous  lime  7  763 

Limy  shale  62  825 

Base  of  Devonian  indefinite. 

LOG  No.  488. 

DEVER  FARM. 

5  mi  es  E.  of  Hodgenvil'e. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Hard  lime  50  50 

Shaly  lime   115  165 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM^ 

Black  shale    (Devonian) — gas  60  225 

Lime  20  245 

Porous   lime — salt  water 15  260 

Shaly  lime  45  305 

Brown  porous  lime  10  315 

Limy  shale  30  345 

White  porous  lime — gas  5  350 

Limy    shale    50  400 

Base  of  Devonian  indefinite. 

LOG  No.  489. 

J.  B.  HOLLAND  FARM, 

6  miles  E.  of  Hodgenville. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Lime   200  200 

Limy  shale  20  220 

Lime  183  403 

Soft  shale  37  440 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM 

Black  shale  (Devonian) — gas  63  503 

Porous  lime — salt  water  67  570 

Dark  shale  10  580 

Reddish   shale  15  595 

Limy  sha!e  5  600 

White  porous  lime  5  605 

Lime  30  635 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS  403 

LAUREL  COUNTY. 

LOG  No.  490. 

JACKSON  WELL. 
\\'z  mi  es  South  of  Bernstadt. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 
PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Clay  45  45 

Blue   shale   35  80 

Soft  lime  and  shale  40  120 

Hard  lime  70  190 

Water  sand    (?)    20  210 

White  lime  20  230 

Gray  shale  470  700 

Black  iime  70  770 

Slate    45  815 

Blue    shale   35  850 

Black   shale   50  900 

Fire  clay   (?)  110  1010 

"Oil  sand"— light  oil  show  20  1030 

Blue   shale   5  1035 

"Oil   sand" — no   show  46  1081 

Blue   shale    15  1096 

"Oil  sand" — no  show  „ 29  1125 

Blue  shale  45  1170 

Sand   (?)   35  1205 

Sand  and  lime  695  1900 

(A  very  poor  record,  base  of  Pottsville  indefinite). 


LAWRENCE  COUNTY. 

LOG  No.  491. 

BUSSEYVILLE  OIL  CO.  No.  1. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Gravel   39  39 

Lime    11  50 

Slate    80  130 

Sand   55  185 

Slate    225  410 

Sand    20  430 

S  ate    45  475 

Sand   160  635 

Slate    5  640 

Sand    230  870 

Slate  (base  of  Pottsville)  10  880 


404  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES   OF  KENTUCKY 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

"Little   lime"   20  900 

"Big   lime"    150  1050 

Slate    10  1060 

Shale    20  1080 

Sand    422  1502 

Black  shale  (Sunbury)  15  1517 

"Berea"   sand— oil    ..  20  1537 


LOG  No.  492. 

F.  R.  BUSSEY  FARM. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Gravel    30                          30 

Back   slate   50                          80 

White   sand    15                         95 

White   slate   30                       125 

White    sand    20                        145 

Blac'K   lime   40                        185 

Black  slate  15                       200 

White    sand    30                       230 

Black  slate  15                        245 

White  sand  20                        265 

Coal    4                        269 

BlaCk  slate  186                        455 

White  sand— oil  show  at  455  30                       485 

Black  s'ate  70                       555 

Sand    140                        695 

Black  s  ate  20                        715 

Sand    80                        795 

Black    slate    30                        825 

Sand    10                        835 

Black  slate  30                       865 

Sand    40                        905 

Black  slate   (base  of  Pottsville)   30                        935 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Red  rock  20                        955 

"Little  lime"   15                        970 

Slate  10                        980 

"Big   lime"    100  1080 

S  ate  and  shells  215  1295 

White    slate    255  1550 

Black  slate   (Sunbury?)   20  1570 

Sand    ..  28  1598 


RECORDS   OF  DRILLED  WELLS  405 

LOG  No.  493. 

BUSSEY  WELL— No.  2. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 
PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Clay    20  20 

White    sand    80  100 

Brown  slate   40  140 

White    sand    80  220 

White    slate   130  350 

Lime   8  358 

Black  slate  142  500 

White    sand    10  510 

B!ack    slate    105  615 

Sand    15  630 

Black  slate  10  640 

White    sand 375  1015 

Black  slate  (base  of  Pottsville)  2  1017 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Lime— "Big   lime"    130  1147 

Sand   60  1207 

Slate  and  shells  268  1475 

Black    slate 178  1653 

Gray  sand  and  slate  break  64  1717 


LOG  No.  494. 

LAURA  WEBB  FARM. 
Near  Busseyvi  le. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Gravel    30                         30 

Lime    _ 10                         40 

Coal    3                          43 

Black   sate   17                         60 

White    sand    20                         80 

White   slate    15                         95 

White    sand    25  120 

Black  slate  •  180  300 

White   sand    25 

Brown  slate  50  375 

Lime  75  450 

Black  slate  480 

White  sand  (base  of  Pottsville)  405  885 


406  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Lime— "Big    lime"    130  1015 

White  sand  10  1025 

S  ate  and  shells  453  1478 

B  ack  shale  (Sunbury)  21  1499 

"Berea  sand"  35  1534 

Black  slate  3  1537 

White   sand    21  1558 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black    slate    26  1584 

LOG  No.  495. 

O'NEAL  FARM— No.  2. 

Near  Busseyville. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Clay    12  12 

White    sand    28  40 

B  ack  slate  140  180 

White   sand   20  200 

B  ack  slate  400  600 

White  sand  (base  of  Pottsville)  390  990 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Blue   shale   10  1000 

Lime — "Big   lime"    150  1150 

Sand   15  1165 

White  shale 10  J.175 

White    sand   - 25  1200 

Slate  and  shells  300  1500 

White   slate   133  1633 

Brown  shale  (Sunbury)  20  1653 

"Berea"    sand    61  1714 

LOG  No.  496. 

JASON  BOGGS— No.  1. 
Brier  Fork  of  Cains  Creek. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 
PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil 10  10 

Slate — cased  at  60  ft 55  6;3 

Sand  15  SO 

Slate  and  broken  sand 172  252 

Slate   197  449 

Sand   3  452 

Slate   6  458 

Sand   12  470 

Slate  (base  of  Pottsville)  ...  25  495 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS  407 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

"Big  lime"  135  630 

Dark  slate  10  640 

"Big  Injun"  sand  and  lime  197  837 

Slate   8  845 

Sand— Gas  at  865  125  970 

Slate— cased  at  976  ft 20  990 

Black  shale  (Sunbury?)  15  1005 

Berea  sand  76  1081 

Light  slate  19  1100 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Brown    shale    470  1570 

White  slate  108  1678 

Black  lime  and  slate  _ 10  1688 

Sand— Gas   at    1690    ...  10  1698 


LOG  No.  497. 

JASON  BOGGS— No.  2. 
Brier  Fork  of  Cains  Creek. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil    10  10 

S'ate    . 30  40 

Sand    20  63 

Slate— gas— cased  at  63  ft 12  75 

Sand    15  90 

Slate    .w 158  248 

Sand    -192  440 

Slate 4  444 

Sand 8  452 

Slate  (base  of  Pottsville)  38  490 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

"Big   lime"   147  637 

Slate    - ~ 5  642 

"Big   Injun"    sand    23  665 

Lime  and  sand  174  839 

Slate    49  888 

Sand    64  952 

Slate  25  977 

Black  slate— cased  at  980  ft 28  1005 

Berea    sand    91  1096 

Light    slate    19  1116 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black   shale   455  1570 

White  Slate  112  1682 

Sand  and  lime— Gas  at  1684  8  1694 


408  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES   OF  KENTUCKY 

LOG  No.  498. 

O'BRIEN  WELL. 
4%  Miles  South  of  Louisa. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 
PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil    35  33 

Black  slate  40  75 

Coal    2  77 

Sand    51'  128 

Dark    slate   127  255 

Sand    95  350 

Dark   slate   85  435 

Gas    sand    (?)    60  495 

Dark  slate  15  510 

Salt   sand    (?)    250  760 

Dark   slate   20  780 

Sand 100  880 

MISSISSIPFIAN   SYSTEM. 

Slate    : 90  970 

Red  sha'.e  15  985 

Lime    20  1005 

Sand    50  1055 

Black    slate    10  1065 

"Big  lime"    175  1240 

Slate    and    shells   520  1760 

Sand 40  1800 

Dark   slate   ...  20  1820 


LOG  No.  499. 

YOUNG  WELL. 
Cherokee  Creek. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Sand  40  40 

Blue   shale   40  80 

Black  slate  150  230 

Light  slate  20  250 

Blue  shale  60  310 

White  sand  80  390 

White  shale  10  400 

White  sand  (Pottsville)  ...  90  490 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS  409 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Slate   50  540 

"Big   Lime"   110  650 

Dark  slate 10  660 

Light  slate  430  1090 

Black  shale  (Sunbury)  40  1130 

White  sand   (Berea?)  80  1210 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Brown    shale    510  1720 

White  shale  100  1820 

Sand— Gas  show  ...                                          .  130  1950 


LOG  No.  500. 

S.  A.  GARRED  WELL. 

Near  Gallup. 

Strata                                                           Thickness  Depth. 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Drift  40  40 

Slate  80  120 

Sand  10  130 

Slate  5  135 

Sand  15  150 

Slate  70  220 

Coal    2  222 

Slate 18  240 

Sand  90  330 

Shale    5  335 

Sand   (base  of  Pottsville)  270  605 

UISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

"Big   Lime"   197  802 

Slate  18  820 

Red  rock  2  822 

Shells  and  slate  404  1226 

Brown  slate  (Sunbury)  12  1238 

"Berea"— gas  show  at  1250  50  1288 

Slate   (part  Devonian)   812  2100 

Sand  and  lime— gas  show  at  2340 770  2870 

Red  rock  130  3000 

Slate  30  3030 

Red  rock  20  3050 

Slate  80  3130 

Base  of  Mississippian  and  Top  of  Devonian  Systems  indefinite 

— within  812  feet  marked  part  Devonian. 


410-  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES   OF  KENTUCKY 

LOG  No.  501. 

BROAS  WELL. 

Hood  Creek. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 
PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil    18  18 

Sand    4  22 

Clay  7  29 

Sand    78  117 

Shale  , 52  169 

Sand    50  219 

Coal  2  221 

Slate   (base  of  Pottsville)  12  233 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Lime   104  337 

Sand   27  364 

Lime— oil  at  320 26  390 

Slate   and   shale   384  774 

Sand    100  874 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black   shale   580  1454 

Sand    16  1470 

Lime   ...                                                                .  145  1615 


LOG  No.  502. 

F.  F.  WELL  ON  BIG  ELAINE  CREEK. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil    12  12 

Shale   6  18 

Sanl    32  50 

Black   shale    94  144 

White    sand    1 24  168 

Black  shale  3  171 

Dark  sand  , 21  192 

Gray  sand  and  pebbles  7  199 

White    sand    21  220 

Coarse  pebbles — Oil  show  12  232 

Coarse  white  sand — Oil  show  44  276 

Sand  and  shale  25  301 

Coarse  white  sand  and  pebbles — Oil  and 

gas  25  326 

"Honeycomb"  sand  40  366 

(All  Pottsville.) 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS 


411 


LOG  No.  503. 


GRIFFITH'S  CREEK  WELL. 


Strata 
PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Sands  and  shales   (Pottsville) 


Thickness 


790 


MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Limestone  —  "Big  lime"  ..................................  152 

Blue  shale—  Oil  at  1423  ..................  '.  ...............  481 

Gray  sand—  oil  at  1510  ..................................  |87 

Missing    ..............................................................  20 

Hard  shale  ..........................................................  4 


DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  and  lime  shells 
Lime  —  (Corniferous?)  —  Oil 
Blue  shale  —  Gas  at  2211 
Green  shale  —  Gas  at  2350 


644 
3 
.'.  ......      30 

158 
Black  and  blue  shales  ..........  38 


Depth 
790 

842 
1423 
1510 
1530 
1534 

2178 
2181 
2211 
2369 

2407 


LOG  No.  504. 


BERRY  WELL. 
Hood  Creek. 


Strata  Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil  20                          20 

Shale 82                       102 

Sand  49                        151 

Shale 9                       160 

Sand  63                       223 

Shale 4                       227 

Sand  173                       400 

Shale   (base  of  Pottsville) 95                      495 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Lime— "Big  Lime"  152                       647 

Shale  and  sand  195                       842 

Sand 48                       890 

Blue  shale 15                       905 

Black  shale  195  1100 

Sand  and  shale  620  1720 

Lime  and  sand — oil  and  gas 20  1740 

White  lime  80  1820 

Lime  and  sand  65  1885 

Sand— oil  60  1945 

Lime    ..                                     160  2105 


412 


OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 


LOG  No.  505. 

J.   E.   COOPER   FARM. 
7  miles  south  of  Webbville. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Blue  shale  325  325 

Lime  15  340 

Shale 120                        460 

White  sand  5                       465 

Shale 120                        585 

Sand  15                       600 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

"Big  Lime"  150                        750 

Light  shale  350  1100 

Dark  shale 50  1150 

Sand 130  1280 

Dark  shale  (Devonian?)  ' 455  1735 

White  shale  105  1840 

Sand  80  1920 

Base  of  Mississippian  indefinite. 


LOG  No.  506. 

HORSFORD  WELL. 
iy2  miles  above  mouth  of  Big  Elaine. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Sand  and   shales    (Pottsville)    1025  1025 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Big  lime 140  1165 

Waverly  535  1700 

Berea  shale  (Sunbury)  27  1727 

Berea  grit— gas  60  1787 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  53  1840 

LOG  No.  507. 

WELL  AT  MOUTH  OF  BIG  ELAINE. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil    20  20 

Sand    60  80 

Gray  shale  and  red  35  115 

Sand    195  310 

Brown    shale    45  355 

Sand    60  415 

Black    slate    ..  15  430 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS  413 

Sand  HO  540 

Gray  shale   50  590 

Black  shale  20  610 

Sand — Gas  and  salt  water  125  735 

Black    slate    30  765 

Sand — Gas  and  salt  water  95  860 

Black   sha'e   10  870 

White  Conglomerate  sand  (base  of  Potts- 
vine)    365  1235 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Green  sand  (big  lime  missing) 5  1240 

Slate   she  Is    (Waverly)    410  1650 

Black  slate   (Sunbury)   10  1660 

Sand    (Berea  Grit)— Gas 2  1662 

Sand  and  shells  15  1677 

Sand  and  shales  65  1742 

Black    slate    5  1747 

Sand  and  shells  5  1752 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  slate  648  2400 

Light  gray  slate  192  2592 

Lime  5  2597 

LOG  No.  508. 

J.   W.   CARTER   FARM. 

Big  Elaine  Creek — 1  mile  above  Fallsburg. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Gravel  30  30 

Slate 30  60 

Sand    15  75 

Slate    100  175 

Sand    35  210 

Slate    20  230 

Gas  sand  70  300 

Slate    30  330 

Oil  sand  20  350 

Slate  80  430 

Sand    30  460 

Slate   20  480 

Sand    60  540 

Slate   85  625 

Salt    sand   50  675 

Slate   45  720 

Sand    20  740 

Slate    40  780 


414  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES   OF  KENTUCKY 

Sand    20  800 

Slate   10  810 

Sand  50  860 

Slate  20  880 

Sand  15  895 

Slate 15  910 

Sand    10  920 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

"Big    lime"    55  975 

"Big  Injun"*  142  1117 

"Berea"*  —oil 471  1588 

^Driller's  names. 

LOG  No.  509. 

MILLER  FARM. 

Lick  Creek. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Clay 5  5 

Sand  15  20 

Slate  30  50 

Coal 3  53 

Sand  50  103 

Slate  422  525 

Sand  145  670 

Slate  70  740 

Sand    (Pottsville)    185  925 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Slate    15  940 

"Big   Lime"   190  1130 

Waverly  shale  499  1629 

Sand  40  1669 

Shelly  slate  12  1681 

LEE  COUNTY. 

LOG  No.  510. 

WELL  AT  TALLEGA. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Coal  measures  sand  and  shale  365  365 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

"Big  lime" 175  540 

Waverly 515  1055 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Devonian  shales  181  1236 

Ljme — oil  show  ...  27  1263 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS  415 

LOG  No.  511. 

CABLE  WELL. 
1  mile  S.  E.  of  Fincastle. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil  '. 4                            4 

Sand    101  105 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Slate    83  188 

Lime  and  slate -...  152  340 

Sand    20  360 

Lime  81  441 

Sand 15  456 

Lame  „.  24  480 

Slate  115  595 

Brown  slate 5  600 

Shaly  slate  365  965 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Brown  sha'.el                                175  1140 

Blue   shale                                       12  H52 

Brown  shale  f     (Devonian)        7 

Blue  shale  5  1164 

Cap  rock  18  H82 

Oil  sand— oil  show  at  1182  and  1238 88  1270 


LOG  ISTO.  512. 

SHOEMAKER  WELL. 
1%  miles  S.  E.  of  Fincastle. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

J'ENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil    3                            3 

Sand   121                       124 

Slate  9                       133 

Shale  75                       208 

Sand    92                        300 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Slate    75                       375 

Lime— "Big  lime"  108 

Slate  and  shale  (Waverly)  499                       982 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Brown  shale  ^                                      178                     1160 

Blue  shale       L  (Devonian) 

Brown  sha'e  j                               8 

Cap  rock— salt  water  at  1187 14                    1187 

Black  lime  39 

Lime — oil  show  9                     1235 


416  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

LOG  No.  513.  CHARLES  HARRIS  FARM. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Soil    27                          27 

Gray  shale  190  217 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale     )                              125  342 

White  shale     (.  (Devonian)        6  348 

Black  shale     J                              8  356 

Lime— salt  water  75  431 

LOG  No.  514.  EPH  ANGEL  FARM. 

Big  Sinking  Creek. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Soil    15                         15 

Lime   140  155 

Blue  shale  30  185 

Lime  20  205 

Slate  10  215 

Lime   5  220 

Slate   85  305 

Lime   5  310 

Slate   100  410 

Lime   4  414 

Slate   80  494 

Lime   6  500 

Slate  100  600 

Red  rock  10  610 

Slate  45  655 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Shale  )  120  775 

Fire  clay  (.  (Devonian)  15  790 

Shale  \ 10  800 

Oil  sand— oil  at  800  ...  11  811 


LOG  No.  515.  DAN  FAILEY  FARM. 

Hell  Creek. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil    6  6 

Slate   23  29 

Sand  and  shells  1  30 

Slate   20  50 

Sand   85  135 

Slate  ^ 10  145 

Coal  5  150 

Slate   ...  75  225 


RECORDS  OP  DRILLED  WELLS  417 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Shell  and  slate 135                       360 

Black  lime  125                       485 

Slate  40                       525 

Gray  lime 75                       600 

Slate  368                       968 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  \                               122                    1090 

Slate               I  (Devonian)           65                     1155 

Black  shale  )                                13                     1168 

Black  lime  2                     1170 

Gray  sand  (lime?)  10                     1180 

LOG  No.  516.  BRANDENBURG  WELL. 

y2  mile  West  of  Cressmont. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil    15                         15 

Slate  50                         65 

Sand   60                       125 

Slate  and  shale  (base  of  Pottsville)  155                       280 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

"Big  lime"  180                       460 

Sand   40                       500 

Slate   425                       925 

Brown  shale  ., 120                     1045 

DEVONIAN   SYSTEM. 

Fire  clay  (?)  13                     1058 

Top  of  sand at          1058 

Oil  show at          1065 

Water  at          1070 

"Break"    1105        to          1107 

Oil  show at         1130 

Slate  at         1143 

LOG  No.  517. 

EUREKA  WELL— No.  1. 

Strata                                                          Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Shale  60                        60 

Sand   (base  of  Pottsville)  270                       330 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Lime— "Little  lime"  15                       345 

Shale  15                       360 

Lime — "Big  lime"  140                       500 

Shale  30                      530 

Lime  15                      545 

Shale  440                       985 

Oil  &  Gas— 14 


418 


OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 


DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  152 

"Fire  clay"    (shale)    13 

Lime 22 

"Oil  sand" — oil  ....  16 


1137 
1150 
1172 
1188 


LOG  No.  518. 


EUREKA  WELL— No.  2. 


Thickness 


15 


Strata 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 
Sand  (base  of  Pottsville) 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Lime — "Little  lime" 15 

Slate 15 

Lime — "Big  lime"  130 

Green  slate  29 

Slate  446 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  140 

"Fire  clay"  (shale)  15 

Lime  20 

"Oil  sand" — oil  21 

I 


Depth 
15 

80 

45 
175 
204 
650 

790 
805 
825 
846 


LOG  No.  519. 


EUREKA  WELL— No.  9. 


Thickness 


Strata 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Sand 90 

Slate  180 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 


Slate 
Lime 
Slate 
Lime 


15 

15 

„  130 
20 
10 


Slate  ....................................................................    470 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 
Black  shale  .... 


"Fire  clay"  (Shale) 

Lime 

"Oil  sand"  ... 


....  135 
....   15 
....   58 
65 


Depth 

90 

270 

285 
300 
430 
450 
460 
930 

1065 
1080 
1138 
1203 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS  419 

LOG  No.  520.  EUREKA  WELL— No.  10. 

Strata                                                       Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Sand  and  gravel  60  60 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  85  145 

Lime  135  280 

Slate  and  shells 500  780 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Brown  shale  142  922 

White  shale _ 10  932 

Lime  18  950 

"Oil  sand"  16  966 

LOG  No,  521.  THOMAS  BURKHART  FARM. 

Strata                                                          Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Clay 16  15 

Sand  and  shale  150  165 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Sandy  lime  35  200 

"Big  lime"  „.  126  326 

Green  slate  15  341 

White  slate  23  364 

Blue  slate  467  841 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black   shale   139  980 

White  shale  22  1002 

Lime— oil  show  91  1093 

LOG  No.  522.  R.  J.  McLIN  FARM— No.  3. 

Strata                                                          Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Clay  20  20 

Sand   100  120 

Slate  10  130 

Sand   70  200 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Slate  and  shale  143  343 

Lime  95  438 

Green  slate  32  470 

Lime   10  480 

White  slate  460  940 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Brown  shale  155  1095 

White  slate  13  1108 

Lime— oil  at  1118  ...  1163 


420  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES   OF  KENTUCKY 

LOG  No.  523. 

R.  J.  McLIN  FARM— No.  4. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Clay  20  20 

Sand   100  120 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Slate 130  250 

Lime  95  345 

Slate 21  366 

Lime 20  386 

Blue  slate  439  825 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Brown  shale  155  980 

Green   slate   42  1022 

Lime  91  •          1113 


LEWIS  COUNTY. 

LOG  No.  524. 

ESHAM  FARM. 
Briery  Creek. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 
MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Red  gravel 8  8 

Sandstone   9  17 

White  slate  38  55 

Black  slate  47  102 

Fire  c'.ay  13  115 

Black  slate  13  128 

White  slate  2  130 

DEVONIAN  SYTEM. 

Black  shale  102  232 

Fire  clay  8  240 

Black  shale  and  slate 60  300 

White    slate;    showing    of    oil,    gas,    salt 

water — 8    bailers    to    a    screw    and 

increasing  5  305 

Black  lime   sand;    water  increased  from 

306  to  326,  no  oil  or  gas  below  306 5  310 

Light  lime  sand;  no  oil,  gas  or  water 35  345 

Black  lime 10  355 

Black  slate  -  3  358 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS  421 

LOG  No.  525.                HAMILTON  FARM— No.  1. 

Mouth  of  Mosby  Creek. 

Strata                                                          Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Drift  5  5 

Sandy  clay 49  54 

Sandy  shale  71  125 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  slate 195  320 

Fire  clay 10  330 

Black  slate : go  410 

SILURIAN  SYSTEM. 

Blue  lime  ,. 107  517 

Sand  ...                     35  552 

Fire  clay  ...              12  564 

Red  shale 23  537 

Sand  ...                               3  590 

Red  shale  ....                          55  645 

White  slate  35  680 

Red  shale   5  535 

White  slate 15  700 

ORDOVICIAN  SYSTEM. 

Lime   10  710 

White  slate  35  745 

Lime  20  765 

Sand    5  770 

White   slate   230  1000 

Mixed  lime  771  1771 

Pencil  cave  12  1783 

Hard  lime  219  2002 

LINCOLN  COUNTY. 

LOG  No.  526. 

K.  DUNAGAN  FARM. 

Buck  Creek. 

Strata                                                          Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil  7  7 

Chesty  lime 137  144 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  slate — 'gas  show  52  196 

"Ragland"  sand— oil  show  8  204 

Shale  20  224 

Sand  (?)— oil  show 2  226 

Lime   3  229 

Sand  (?)  3  232 

Lime  7  239 

Sand  (?)  15  254 

Lime. 


422       OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

LOG  No.  527. 

JOE  SCHLACTOR  FARM. 
2^  miles  S.  W.  of  Junction  City. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Back  shale  42  42 

Lime — oil    show    22  64 

Light  shale. 

LOG  No.  528. 

WELL  AT  KING'S  MOUNTAIN. 

Scott  Oil  &  Gas  Company,  Lessee. 

Dr.  C.  M.  Thompson,  No.  1.,  Lessor. 

J.  McGrath,  Driller. 

Casing  Head  Elevation,  1185  ft.     Surface  Elevation,  1185  ft. 
Strata  Thickness  Depth 

Conductor  3  3 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Cliff  Rock  10  13 

Limestone 50  63 

Blue  slate  197  260 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale 33  293 

Fire  clay  3  296 

Cap  rock  2  315 

Limestone   (Onondaga-Corniferous) 19 

Total  depth  315 

Remarks: — Struck  gas  pocket  in  Waverly  on  August  6,  1919,  at 
9:30  a.  m.,  depth  150  ft.,  gas  gave  out  10:30  p.  m.  same  date. 
Reduced  hole  from  8  to  6%  inches  at  179  feet.  Did  not  drill 
all  the  way  through  oil  sands. 

LOGAN  COUNTY. 

LOG  No.  529. 

WELL  AT  DIAMOND  SPRINGS. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

Soil  24                         24 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Shale 76  100 

Sand   L 25  125 

Slate  35  160 

Lime  35  195 

Slate  30  225 

Sand  20  245 

Shale  110  355 

Sand  30  385 

Shale  ....  11  396 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS  423 

Lime 124  520 

Sand— oil  show  20  540 

Slate 60  600 

Sand— oil  show  28  628 

Hard  lime  672  1300 

Well  starts  nearly  at  top  of  the  Chester  and  the  sandstone  at  600 — 

628  is  probably  the  Cypress.    Well  did  not  go  deep  enough  to 

reach  the  Devonian  shale. 

LOG  No.  530. 

WELL  AT  RUSSELLVILLE. 

(Partial  record). 

Strata                                                          Thickness  Depth 
MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

"Blue-Lick"  water  at           744 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Shale   (Devonian?)  910  to         1010 

Heavy  oil  at          1291 

"Marble"   (white  lime)  1291  to         1411 

Dark  pebbly  rock  1411  to          1854 

Base  of  Devonian  indefinite. 

MAGOFFIN  COUNTY. 

LOG  No.  531. 

TRIPLETT— No.  1. 

Pricey  Creek. 

Strata                                                          Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil    14  14 

Sand  31  45 

Slate  95  140 

Sand 75  215 

Slate  10  225 

Sand    90  316 

Coal  3  318 

Sand  (base  of  Pottsville)  12  330 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Lime  shells  80  410 

Slate  16  425 

"Little  lime"  20  445 

Sand  10  455 

Slate 15  470 

Slate  and  lime  shells 80  550 

"Big  lime"— cased  at  665  185  735 

Waverly  shale  335  1070 

Brown  shale— (Sunbury)  15  1085 

"Berea  Grit"— oil  show  10  1095 

Slate  break 5  1100 

"Berea  Grit"— gas  show 15  1116 

White  slate  and  shells  ...                     70  1185 


424  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OP  KENTUCKY 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  320  1505 

White  slate  57  1562 

"Clinton   sand"*    (lime) Ill  1673 

(Oil  and  gas  at  1587.     Gas  at  1605). 
*Driller's  convention. 


LOG  No.  532. 

JAMES  ONEY  FARM. 
Left  Fork  of  White  Oak  Creek. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 
PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil  7  7 

Sand  43  50 

Lime  10  60 

Sand   20  80 

Slate   136  216 

Sand  139  355 

Slate  5  360 

Sand  65  425 

Slate   50  475 

Sand  90  565 

Slate  (base  of  Pottsville)  5  570 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

"Little  lime"  12  582 

Shells  and  slate 28  610 

"Big  lime"  120  730 

Light  shale  438  1168 

Black  shale  (Sunbury)  18  1186 

Berea  sand  32  1218 

Slate  and  shells 22  1240 

White  slate  ....  35  1275 


DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Brown  shale  j                                163  1438 

Lime   shell     I  (Devonian)          2  1440 

Brown  shale  j                               152  1592 

White  slate  29  1621 

Lime 149  1770 

Slate  15  1785 

Lime  20  1805 

Slate  16  1821 

Top  of  Silurian  indefinite. 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS 


425 


LOG  No.  533. 

W.  T.  PHILLIPS— No.  1. 

White  Oak  Creek. 

Strata                                                             Thickness  Depth 
PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Clay  and  gravel 20  20 

Slate  20  40 

Hard  shell   (sand?) 10  50 

Slate  80  130 

"Settling  sand"  205  335 

Slate  (base  of  Pottsville)  37  372 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

"Little  lime"  10  382 

S'ate  and  shell  33  415 

"Big  lime"  160  575 

Waverly  shale— cased  at  417 431  1006 

Sand — show  of  oil  and  gas  14  1020 

Black  slate   (Sunbury)  20  1040 

Berea  Grit.     10  1050 

White  slate  45  1095 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black    slate    262  1357 

White  shale  23  1380 

"Clinton  sand"*    (lime) — show  of  gas  in 

top 230  1610 

Slate  10  1620 

Red  rock  6  1626 

*Driller's  distinction. 

Top  of  Silurian  indefinite. 


LOG  No.  534. 

W.  M.  KEATON  FARM. 
Near  Netty  P.  O. 

Johnson  Fork. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 
PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil    18  18 

White  slate  112  130 

Lime  shells  10  140 

Slate   220  360 

Lime  60  420 

Sand   95  615 

Slate  115  630 

Sand   10  640 

Black  lime  (?)  15  655 

Sand   (base  of  Pottsville) 149  804 


426  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

"Little  lime"— cased  at  804 6                      810 

Slate 2                      812 

"Big  lime"  123                       935 

Waverly  shale  367  1302 

Black  shale    (Sunbury)    4  1306 

Sand  (Berea  Grit?)  20  1326 

White  slate  14  1340 

Sand   15  1355 

White  slate 25  1380 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Brown  shale  298  1678 

White  slate  40  1718 

Brown  lime— oil  show  at  1838  120  1838 

Gray  lime  16  1854 

Slate  3  1857 

SILURIAN  SYSTEM. 

Brown  sand    (?)* 8  1865 

Brown  lime  50  1915 

White  sand  (?)* 70  1985 

Sand    (?)* 2  1987 

*Probably  lime 

LOG  No.  535. 

A.  J.  LINDON  FARM. 

Head  of  Johnson  Fork.  j    • 
Eastern  Gulf  Oil  Co.,  Lessee. 
Started  July  15,  1917— Completed  August  31,  1917. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil    10                          10 

Shelly   slate   30                         40 

Lime  shell  35                         75 

Slate— coal  at  175 .-. 100  175 

Sand   25  200 

Slate  100  300 

Sand   15  315 

Slate  35  350 

Sand  5  355 

Slate  5  360 

Sand  _ 110  470 

Slate  105  575 

Lime  she'.ls  20  595 

Sand   75  670 

Slate  60  730 

Sand  (base  of  Pottsville)  33  763 


RECORDS  OP  DRILLED  WELLS  427 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

"Little   lime"   5  768 

Slate  10  778 

"Big  lime" 114  892 

Waverly  shale  434  1326 

Black  shale  (Sunbury)  5  1331 

Berea  Grit  20  1361 

White  slate  25  1376 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Brown  shale  319    •  1695 

White  slate  30  1725 

Lime  (Ragland  sand?)  60  1785 


LOG  No.  536. 

Near  Hendricks  P.  O.  on  Middle  Fork  of  Licking  River. 
Harris  Arnett,  Lessor;  L.  H.  Gormley,  Lessee. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil  40  40 

Black  slate  260 

Gray  sand  85 

Black  slate  75  460 

Shelly   slate   25  485 

White  lime  (?)  40  525 

White  sand  (base  of  Pottsville)  190  715 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Gray  lime— "Big  lime"  210  925 

Dark  s  ate  245  1170 

Shelly  sand  20  1190 

Gray  sand  WO 

Shelly  slate 100  1390 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black    slate    400  1790 

Lime  290 

Bastard  gray  sand  50  2130 

Slate  and  red  shale 77  2207 


428 


OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 


LOG  No.  745. 

F.  M.  BLANTON— No.  2. 

Bed  Rock  Oil   Co.  Well,  on  F.  M.  B.anton  Farm  on  Big  Branch  of 
Ticklick  Branch  of  Mine  Fork  of  Little  Paint  Creek, 

in  Magoffin  County. 
Elevation  Surface  960  A.  T. 
Strata 
PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Drift    0  6        feet 

S.ate    6  27 

Coal   27  28 

Slate    ^. ..       28  39 

Gray   sand   39  90 

White  sand  90  170 

White  sand  170  235         Fresh  water  and  strong 

show  of  oil. 

Gray  shale  and  slate 235  342 

White  sand  342  395 

Shale  and  gray  sand  395  405 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

White  sand  405  410 

Gray  sand  and  lime  410  420 

Green    shale    420  430 

Sand  and  blue  shale  ....     430  449 

White  lime— Big  Lime..     449  510         Big    Lime— 460    ft.    of 

casing. 

Gray  and  b_ue  shale 510  614 

Limy  sand  614  775 

Gray  sand  775  817         Weir.     Gas  from  top  to 

bottom.     987,000  cu.  ft. 

B!ack  shale — Sun.bury....     817  832         of  gas. 

Time  of  drilling  8  days.     Drilled  by  E.  F.  Henry. 

LOG  No.  746. 

F.  M.  BLANTON— No.  3. 
Bed  Rock  Oil  Co.,  on  Big  Branch  of  Ticklick  Branch  of  Mine  Fork  in 

Magoffin  County. 
E:evation  Surface  1025  ft. 
Strata 
PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Drift    0     to       24         feet 

Slate    .. 


0     to       24 

24  100 

Brown    sand    100  140 

White  sand  140  200 

White  sand  200  300 

Shale  and  slate 300  424 

Brown  sand 424  435 

Brown    sand    -                 .  435  460 


Fresh  water. 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS  429 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Gray   shale   460  475 

Blue  shale  and  lime....  475  505 

Blue  shale  505  525 

White  lime  525  600         Big  Lime  casing  set  at 

Green  sand  and  shales..  600  869         538. 

Light  gray  sand  869  915        Weir  sand  gas.    Later 

Black  shale 915  949         properly     gauged     and 

found  to  be  over  2,000,- 
Driller,  E.  F.  Henry.  000. 

LOG  No.  747. 

Bed  Rock  Oil  Co's.  J.  C.  Cantrill  No.  1,  on  Ticklick  Branch  of  Mine 

Fork,  in  Magoffin  County. 
Elevation  Surface  955  A.  T. 
Strata 
PENNSYLVANIAN   SYSTEM. 

Drift  0     to      15        feet 

Sand  stone  15  100 

Sand  and  shales  100  200 

Sandstone    200  310 

Sandstone    310  312 

Blue    Clay   312  325 

White  sandstone  325  373 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Blue  clay  373  375 

Shelly   lime   and   shales     375  417 

Blue  c  ay  417  426 

White  iime  426  504         Big  Lime  casing  set  at 

440. 

Gray  shales  504  712 

Sandy  lime  712  740         About  50,000  cu.  ft.  gas. 

Black  shale  740  750 

Gray  sand  750  788         Weir     sand    gas     from 

top   to   bottom.   850,000 
cu.  ft. 

Sandy  shales  788  819 

Rock  Pressure  285. 

LOG  No.  748. 

Bed  Rock  Oil  Co's.  Boyd  Conley  No.  1,  on  Ticklick  Branch  of  Mine 
Fork  in.  Magoffin  County. 
Elevation  Surface  905  ft. 
Strata 
PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Drift  and  sand  0     to      50 

Sandstone    50  190 

Coarse  white  sand 190  270         Fresh  water  at  200. 

White  sand 270  340 


430 


OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES   OF  KENTUCKY 


MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 
B!ue    clay    with    sandy 

breaks  ............................  340 

White  lime  ......................  365 

Brown  shales  ..................  485 

Slate    ..................................  645 

Sandy  lime  ..........................  650 

Green   shale   ....................  665 

Gray  sand  ........................  700 

Black  shale  ......................  731 

Gray  sand  ........................  743 

Rock  Pressure  285. 


365 

485        Big  Lime  cased  at  400. 

040 

650 


665 
700 
731 
743 
769 


Some  gas. 

175,000  cu.  ft.  gas. 
555,000  cu.  ft.  gas. 


;  Meadow  Branch  of 
the  Branch  up  the 


LOG  No.  749. 

Harris  Howard  No.  1,    Bed  Rock  Oil  Co., 

Licking  River,  just  above  the  forks  of 

Right  Fork. 

Elevation  Surface  about  940  ft. 
Strata 
PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Drift  0  26        feet 

Shale 26  60 

Coal  60  63 

Sand    63  167 

Coal  167  170 

Sand    170  185 

Sand— black  oil  185  195 

Sand  195  275 

Bluish    shale   275  300 

Sand  300  320 

Shales  320  475 

Sand  with  gas 475  500 

White  sand— show  of  oil    500  550 

Sand— sa'.t  water  550  570 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Shale  570  740 

White  lime  740  835        Big  Lime  8%  set  at  800 

Shales    835          1160 

Sand    1160          1250         Weir  sand.     Salt  water 

at  1170.     Rose  900  feet 
in  hole. 

Sandy  lime  1250          1310 

Black  shale— soft   1310          1350         Sunbury  shale. 

Yellow  hard  shale  1350          1390        Berea  Formation. 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  1390          1750 

Gray  shale  1750          1865 

Gray   lime   1865          1955         Corniferous.     100,000 

cu.  ft.  of  gas. 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS  431 

MARTIN  COUNTY. 

LOG  No.  537. 

JACK  CASSIDAY  FARM. 
Hardin  Branch  of  Coldwater  Fork  of  Rockcastle  Creek. 

Strata                                                          Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil    24  24 

Gray  sand  88  112 

Light  slate 12  124 

White   sand   18  142 

Light  slate  40  182 

Gray  sand  '. 3  185 

Black  slate  6  190 

Gray  sand  76  266 

Black  slate  8  274 

Gray  sand  13  287 

Light  s'ate  30  317 

Black   slate   87  404 

Dark   sand — gas   15  419 

Black    slate    56  475 

White  sand— salt  water  93  568 

Black  slate  5  573 

Gray  and  white  sand  69  642 

Black  slate  7  649 

Gray  sand  60  709 

Black  slate  2  711 

Gray  sand  24  735 

Black  s'.ate  3  738 

White   sand   164  902 

Black    s'.ate    53  955 

Gray  sand  4  959 

Dark  slate  — 33  992 

Limy  sand   6  998 

Light  slate  4  1002 

White  sand  (base  of  Pottsville)  14  1016 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Light  slate  34  1050 

Dark  lime  8  1058 

Red  shale  53  1111 

Light  slate  8  1119 

White  sand  26  1145 

Black  slate  30  1190 

Dark  lime— gas  at  1340 200  1390 

Sandy  slate   12  1402 

Red  shale  27  1429 

Dark  slate  445  1874 

Black  slate    (Sunbury?)    18  1892 


432  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES   OP  KENTUCKY 

Gray,  limy  sand  (Berea?)  27  1919 

Light  slate  20  1939 

Dark   slate   32  1971 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Brown  slate    )                               10  1981 

Dark  slate      [  (Devonian)         ^  ^ 

LOG  No.  538. 

J.  M.  STEPP  FARM. 

Wolf  Creek. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Drift    18                          18 

Sand   12                         30 

Coal   2                         32 

Slate * 12  44 

Sand   55                         99 

Light  slate  10  109 

White   sand   40  149 

Light  slate  5  154 

White  sand  56  210 

Coal    2  212 

Light  slate  105  317 

Sand   8  325 

Coal    2  327 

White   sand   10  337 

Light  slate  20  357 

White  sand  12  369 

Black  slate  20  389 

White   slate   40  429 

White   sand   21  450 

Light    slate    50  500 

White    sand    24  524 

Black  slate  25  549 

White  sand  30  579 

Light  slate  .,. 24  603 

Gray  sand  24  627 

Light  slate  25  652 

White   sand    48  700 

Dark   slate    40  740 

White    sand    15  755 

Sandy  slate  20  775 

Gray   sand    25  800 

Black  slate  10  810 

White  sand  100  910 

Coal    3  913 

Light   slate  6  919 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS  433 

37  956 

Slate   ...                        28  984 

Sand 139  1123 

Black  slate  (base  of  Pottsville)  20  1143 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Red   shale  6  1149 

Light    sand   100  1249 

Dark    slate   18  1267 

Red    shale   36  1303 

"Big  lime"— Oil  at  1320— Gas  at  1400 217  1520 

Blue    slate    ..  33  1533 


LOG  No.  539. 

SAM  MUNSEY  FARM. 
Big  Branch  of  Wolf  Creek. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 
PENNSYLVANIAN   SYSTEM. 

Soil    56  56 

Light  slate  24  80 

Gray   sand   35  115 

Light  sate  23  138 

Dark   sand  37  175 

Dark    slate   18  193 

Coal    2  195 

Dark    slate   15  210 

Coal    4  214 

Shelly    slate   248  .  462 

Light    sand    16  478 

Shelly   slate   167  645 

Gray   sand   45  690 

Dark   slate    8  698 

Sand   135  833 

Coal    3  836 

Dark  sand  29  865 

Dark  slate '. 28  893 

White  sand— black  oil  (Pottsville)  79  972 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Shelly   slate   38  1010 

Red   shale  15  1025 

Black  sand  14  1039 

Black  slate  6  1045 

Red  shale 10  1055 

Black    slate    - 18  1073 


434                 OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES   OF  KENTUCKY 

Red  shale  78  1151 

Dark   sand — Gas   ..'. 12  1163 

Dark  slate  '. 30  1193 

Gray  sand  36  1229 

Black  slate  6  1235 

Lime — "Big    lime"    175  1410 

Dark  sand   10  1420 

Sandy   slate    16  1436 

Black  slate  6  1442 

Dark  sand  15  1457 

Dark   slate   78  1535 

Black   slate   4  1539 


LOG  No.  540. 

WARFIELD  WELL. 

Strata                                                          Thickness  Depth 
PENNSYLVANIAN   SYSTEM. 

Soil    32  32 

Sand   11                  .        43 

Coal    7  50 

Sand    97  147 

Coal   ..                    3  150 

White  sand  50  200 

Shale — Salt   water   75  275 

Sand   20  295 

Shale   214  509 

Sand    71  580 

Missing   13  593 

Sand — Oil    show   88  681 

Shale   18  699 

Sand   51  750 

Shale    „                          i 200  950 

Pebbly  sand— Oil  and  gas  50  1000 

White  and  blue  shales  200  1200 

Coarse  pebbly  sand   10  1210 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Shells    90  1300 

Sandy   lime — Gas    7  1307 

(Irregular  Record). 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS  435 

LOG.  No.  541.  YORK  AND  RATLIPF  WELL. 

2  miles  above  Warfield. 

Strata                                                          Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN   SYSTEM. 

Soil  and  gravel  55  55 

Slate    55  110 

Sand    30)  140 

S.ate   and   sand   75  215 

Coal    2  217 

Slate    13  230 

Coal    6  236 

Slate    _ _ ^ 90  326 

Sand    _...  40  366 

Slate   and    shells   284  650 

Sand— Salt    water    225  875 

MISSISSrPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Slate    166  1040 

Slate  and  red  rock  60  1100 

Green  slate  and  red  rock  120  1220 

Sand    A , ,.  15  1235 

Blue  slate  and  red  rock  28  1263 

Red   rock   10  1273 

Black    slate    20  1293 

Dark    shale    20  1313 

"Little    lime"    8  1321 

"Pencil   cave"   9  1330 

"Big  lime"— gas  at  1486  169  1499 

Gas  well 

LOG  No.  542.  THOS.  KIRK  FARM. 

3  miles  above  Warfield. 

Strata                                                          Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN   SYSTEM. 

Clay    30  30 

Sand    55  85 

Slate    55  140 

Coal   5  145 

Slate    -.  105  250 

Sand    50  300 

MISSISSPPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Slate    260 

Sand— Salt   water   220  780 

Slate  and  shells  120  900 

9and    50  950 

Slate  and  shells  20 

Red  rock  20  990 

Green   slate   32  1022 

Lime    .. 18  "40 


436  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

Red    rock    15  1055 

Blue    slate    20  1075 

Lime  shells  and  red  rock  50  1125 

Shells    and    slate    50  1175 

Slate    ,, 25  1200 

"Big    lime"    170  1370 

Slate    5  1375 

Sand 65  1440 

Slate   35  1475 

Sand    40  1515 

White   sla-te   375  1890 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black   shale    (Devonian?)    64  1954 

McLEAN  COUNTY. 

LOG  No.  543.  T.  C.  MARTIN  FARM. 

Livermore. 
Strata  (Partial  record). 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM.  Feet 

White  sand — Oil  show  at    130 

White    shale    "•     140 

Light   gray   shale   "     275 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Gray    lime    _ "     300 

White  sand — oil  show  "     309 

Gray    lime    "     443 

Gray    shale "     595 

Gray    shale    "     700 

Dark   gray   sand   "     800 

Gray    shale    "     865 

Dark   gray   lime    "      895 

Very  dark  lime  "    1165 

Gray    sand    "    1540 

Dove-colored    lime    "    1760 

Dark   shale    "    1800 

Gray  lime  "    1906 

Gray    sand    "    2010 

Dark  sandy  shale — oil  show  "    2020 

Brown  'sand   "    2080 

Dark  shale— Oil  show   (Devonian)   "    2420 

Dove   colored  lime   "    2500 

Dark   shale   "    2600 

Dark  calcareous  sand  "    2670 

Dark    sha'e    "    2715 

Black    shale    "   2800 

Dark    shale    "    3000 

Gray    lime    3025    to  3241 

(Poorly  kept  record). 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS  437 

MEADE  COUNTY. 

LOG  No.  544. 

HARRINGTON  FARM. 

Doe  Run. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Soil    _ 8  8 

Lime    232  240 

Limy    shale    300  540 

White    shale    90  630 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale— gas   60  690 

Lime — Oil  show  at  940.     Salt  water  at 

780  and  878  460  1150 

Sha-y    lime 255  1405 

Top  of  Siliurian  indefinite. 

MENEFEE  COUNTY. 

LOG  No.  545. 

G.  W.  GAY  FARM. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Soil   5  5 

Blue  clay 10  15 

White  shale  90  105 

Blue   shale    50  155 

Gray  lime  10  165 

White  shale 3  168 

Soft  blue  shale 70  238 

Hard  blue  shale 94  332 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale    j 136  468 

White  Clay    I  (Devonian)  6  474 

Brown  shale  )   7  481 

Lime— "Ragland  sand"— Gas  19  500 

LOG  No.  546.  ELIJAH  MYNHIER  FARM. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

IJISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Clay 10  10 

Blue   shale   50  60 

Dark  lime 10  70 

Blue  shale  85 

Light  shale  4 

Dark  lime  16  175 

Shale 123 

Gray  lime 5  303 


OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  j    (Deyoni        137  440 

Blue  shale    f                        12  452 

Lime — "Ragland  sand" — Gas  26  .       478 

LOG  No.  547. 

G.  W.  POYNTER  FARM. 
Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Clay 6  6 

Dark  sand  144  150 

Blue  shale  220  370 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale   i                                                    .     150  520 

Blue    shale    }  (^vonian)    g  52g 

Lime — "Ragland   sand"— gas   at   530    and 

542  to  563  _ 35  563 

Blue  shale  2  565 

LOG  No.  548. 

G.  W.  POYNTER  FARM. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Clay 7  .  7 

Dark  sand  79  86 

Shale 327  413 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale     \   144  557 

Blue    shale      (    (Devonian)    6  563 

Black  shale  )  1  564 

Lime— "Ragland  sand"— Gas  37  601 

Blue  shale 3  604 

LOG  No.  549. 

T.  E.  AMBURGEY  FARM. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Clay 23  23 

Sand  222  245 

Shale 225  470 

Gray  lime  5  475 

Blue  shale  10  485 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale    )  .     165  650 

Blue   shale     { (Devonian) g  65g 

Lime — "Raglanl  sand" — Gas 45  700 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS  439 

LOG  No.  550. 

Strata                                                          Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Clay 5  5 

Dark  shale  15  20 

Sand  30  50 

Dark  shale  267  317 

Light  shale  9  326 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale   ^  40  366 

Brown  shale  I  (Devonian)  102  468 

Blue  shale  ..  )  5  473 

Lime — "Ragland  sand" — Gas 26  499 

Blue   shale   ...  4  503 


LOG  No.  551. 

W.  F.  FITZPATRICK  FARM. 

Strata                                                          Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Clay 6  6 

Blue  shale 30  36 

Sand  8  44 

Blue  shale 263  307 

Gray  lime 8  315 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale   )                       143  458 

Blue  shale  ...  \  (Devonian) 8  466 

Lime— "Ragland   and"— gas   28  494 

Blue   shale   ...  19  513 


LOG  No.  552. 

G.  W.  MILLER  FARM. 

Strata                                                          Thickness  Depth 
MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

day                                    9  9 

Sand  176  185 

Blue  shale 236  421 

Dark  lime  —  22  443 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  j                       144  587 

Blue   shale     (  <Devon'an> 8  595 

Lime— "Ragland  sand"— Gas 26  621 

Blue  shale 7  628 


440  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES   OF  KENTUCKY 

LOG  No.  553. 

JOHN  FEERAFT  FARM. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 
MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Clay „ 7  7 

Dark  sand  61  68 

Blue  shale _ 4  72 

Dark  sand  21  93 

Blue  shale  _  1  94 

Dark  sand 6  100 

Blue  shale 45  145 

Dark  sand  3  148 

Blue  shale 12  160 

Dark  sand  - 10  170 

Blue  shale  13  183 

Dark  sand  11  194 

Blue  shale 318  512 

Gray  lime  2  514 

Blue  shale  6  520 

Gray  lime 2  522 

Blue  shale 8  530 

Black  shale  6  536 

Blue  shale 9  545 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  ..  j  98  643 

Brown  shale   (.  (Devonian)  58  701 

Blue  shale  ...  )  9  710 

Lime — "Ragland  sand" — Gas  36  746 

Blue  shale  5  751 

Gray  lime  5  756 

SILURIAN  SYSTEM. 

Blue  shale 68  824 

LOG  No.  554. 

JACK  BARNETT  FARM. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 
MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Clay    10  10 

Sand  130  140 

Blue   shale   140  280 

Dark    lime    5  285 

Blue   shale   13  298 

Dark  lime  4  302 

Blue  shale  145  447 

Gray  lime  ...  449 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS 


441 


DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  ~| 91  540 

Brown  shale     43  583 

Blue   shale  .    (Devonian)    12  595 

Brown   shale     8  603 

Blue   shale     J  5  608 

Lime— "Raglancl    sand"— Gas    12  620 

SILURIAN  SYSTEM. 

Blue   shale  153  773 

LOG  No.  555. 

CATHERINE  TABOR  FARM. 

Strata                                                          Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Clay    9  9 

Sand  381  390 

Yellow  lime  2  392 

Sand  98  490 

Yellow  lime  2  492 

Blue   shale   25  517 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  .  )                           153  670 

Blue   shale  .  \  (Devonian)    10  68Q 

Lime — "Ragland  sand" — Gas  23  703 

SILURIAN  SYSTEM. 

Blue  shale 7  710 

LOG  No.  556. 

HULDA  COLDIRON  FARM. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Clay    7  7 

Dark  sand  13  20 

Blue  shale 3  23 

Dark    sand    5  28 

Blue  shale 5  33 

Dark  sand  5 

Blue   shale  4  42 

Dark   sand   9  51 

Blue   shale  13  64 

Dark  sand  6  70 

Blue  shale  

Dark  sand  25  120 

Blue   shale  310  430 

Gray  lime  2  432 

Blue  shale  ....                      4  436 


442                 OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale    ]  24  460 

Blue  shale  ....  I  (Devonian)                    6  466 

Brown   shale  f         Shale  gas  at  500 137  603 

Blue   shale  ..J  4  607 

Lime — "Ragland  sand" — Gas  26  633 

SILURIAN  SYSTEM. 

Blue   shale  2  635 

Lime  20  655 

Blue  shale  2  657 

Lime  3  660 

Blue  shale  1  661 

Lime  6  667 

Blue  shale 2  669 

Lime  3  672 

Blue  shale  ....  4  676 


LOG  No.  557. 

J.  M.  ADAMS  FARM. 
Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Clay    7  7 

Sand    47  54 

Blue    shale    288  342 

Gray    lime    3  345 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black   shale   )  160  505 

Blue  shale  ..  \  devonian) 4  509 

Lime — "Ragland     sand"— Gas     and     salt 

water    26  535 

SILURIAN  SYSTEM. 

Blue   shale    10  545 

Gray  lime   5  550 

Light  shale  7  557 


LOG  No.  558. 

EWING   HEIRS   FARM. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Gravel    15  15 

Blue    shale 325  340 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  (Devonian)   230  570 

"Ragland    sand"    50  620 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS  443 

SILURIAN  SYSTEM. 

Lime   (?) 180  800 

Red   rock  25  825 

Lime   150  975 

White  slate  25  1000 

Blue   lime   200  1200 

Red    rock    10  1210 

White  lime  300  1510 

White  sand  (?)  50  1560 

White  lime  80  1640 

Sand    (?)    20  1660 

Lime   141  1801 

LOG  No.  559.      AGNES  ROTHWELL  FARM. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Soil    4  4 

Sand    186  190 

Dark    lime    2  192 

Blue  shale  206  398 

Blue   lime   14  412 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 


Black  shale  . 
Blue  shale  . 
Black  shale 
Brown  shale 
Blue  shale  . 


130         542 
2          544 


•  (Devonian)  ....       11  555 

6  561 

11  572 

Lime — "Ragland   sand" — Gas   43  615 

SILURIAN  SYSTEM. 

Shale  134  749 

Gray  lime  754 

Blue    shale   5  759 

Gray  lime  -  441  1200 

LOG  No.  560.  BELLAMY  FARM. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Clay    

Blue  shale 113  118 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black   shale    )                     .   150  268 

Blue    shale      \  <Devonian) 62  330 

Gray  lime  15  345 

Dark  shale  38  383 

SILURIAN  SYSTEM. 

Lime  ...                                 317  700 


444  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES   OF  KENTUCKY 

LOG  No.  561. 

DAVIS  HAMILTON  FARM. 

Strata                                                          Thickness  Depth 
MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Clay 8  8 

Blue   shale   15  23 

Black  shale 152  175 

Light  shale  35  210 

Gray  lime  3  213 

Blue  shale 2  215 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale 143  358 

Blue  shale  64  422 

Black  shale 18  440 

SILURIAN  SYSTEM. 

Blue  shale 46  486 

Green  shale 14  500 

Yellow  flint  1  501 

Reddish-brown  shale  8  509 

Light  green  shale  3  512 

Reddish-brown  shale 2  514 

Gray  lime 11  525 

Blue  shale 2  527 

Gray  lime  3  530 

Blue  shale 18  548 

Gray  lime 24  572 

Pink  shale 2  574 

Gray  lime  3  577 

Light  shale  8  585 

Gray  lime  3  588 

Blue  shale   2  590 

Gray  lime 4  594 

White  shale  6  600 

Blue  shale 14  614 

Lime  355  969 

Gray  slate  5  974 

Dark  lime  21  995 

Blue  slate 3  998 

Dartc  lime  7  1005 

(Ragland  sand  was  missing.) 
(Top  of  Ordovician  not  defined.) 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS 


445 


LOG  No.  562. 


Strata 
MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil  

Blue  shale 

Sand  

Blue  shale 

Sand  

Gray  lime(?)   

Blue  lime(?)  and  slate 


R.   S.  INGRAM  FARM. 

Thickness 


12 
100 

187 


DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  (Devonian)  173 

Lime — "Ragland     sand" — Oil     show    and 


salt  water 


SILURIAN  SYSTEM. 

Blue  shale 140 

Pink  shale  25 

Blue  lime  ....  53 


Depth 

10 

20 

50 

98 
110 
210 
397 


570 
630 


770 
795 
848 


LOG  No.  563. 


J.  J.  CHAMBERS  FARM. 


Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil    4  40 

Sand   176  180 

Blue   shale   92  272 

Brown   lime   2  274 

Blue    shale   51  325 

Sand 17  342 

Blue   shale   60  402 

Sand    13  415 

Blue   shale   36  451 

Blue  lime  3  454 

Blue   shale   8  462 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale    )                      %    138  600 

Blue  shale     [  (Devonian)    10  61Q 

Lime— "Ragland  sand"  43  653 

SILURIAN  SYSTEM. 

Blue  shale  ....  5 ,  658 


446       OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

LOG  No.  564. 

J.  J.  CHAMBERS  FARM. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Clay    7  7 

Sand    113  120 

Shale    334  454 

Lime    3  457 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale     )                                                .  156  613 

White  shale    }  (Devonian)  8  621 

Lime — "Ragland  sand" — Gas  show  at  636, 

Oil  show  at  646  40  661 

Lime  34  695 

SILURIAN  SYSTEM. 

Blue  shale  ....  13  708 


LOG  No.  565. 

T.  F.  PAYNTER  FARM. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil 7  7 

Shale    403  410 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale     )                        140  550 

Light  shale  ..  [  (Devonian)  ?  ^ 

Lime — "Ragland    sand" — Gas    20  577 

Gray  shale  13  590 


LOG  No.  567. 

SKIDMORE  BROTHERS  FARM. 

Strata                                                          Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Clay   9                           9 

Sand    71                         80 

Blue  shale 298                       378 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale    /                                                 .  156                       534 

Blue  shale  ....  {  (Devonian) g                       ^ 

Lime — "Ragland   sand"   44                       584 

SILURIAN   SYSTEM. 

Blue   shale   ...  6                       590 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS 


447 


LOG  No.  568. 

JOHN  P.  CROCKETT  FARM. 
Strata  Thickness 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Clay   3 

Sand  5 

Blue  shale 7 

Sand  3 

Blue  shale 7 

Sand    '      10 

Blue  .shale 60 

Sand  ...  11 


Blue   shale  

Gray  lime  

Blue   shale  

Gray  lime  

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 
Black  shale 


254 
2 

53 
5 

159 


Blue  shale  .... }  (Devonian)  "~2~^~ 8 

Lime — "Ragland  sand"  55 


Depth 

3 
8 

15 

18 

25 

35 

95 
106 
360 
362 
415 
420 

579 
587 
642 


LOG  No.  569.  ALEXANDER  FARM. 

7  miles  from  Frenchburg. 
Casing  Head  Elevation  725  feet. 

Strata  Depth 
MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Hard    sandstone 200 

Hard    limestone    100 

Soft  shelly  sandstone  250 

Soft   Soapstone  350 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  and  brown  shale  175 

Fire    clay    12 

Limestone  Cap  Rock  (Corniferous  L.  S.)  2 

Oil  sands  (drilled  in)  17 

LOG  No.  570. 

JAMES  NEAL  FARM. 

Strata                                                          Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Clay    9  9 

Sand   16  25 

Blue   shale   5  30 

Sand 25  55 

Blue  sha'.e   45  100 

Sand   8  108 

Blue   shale   ...                                                      92  200 


448  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES   OP  KENTUCKY 

Sand    20  220 

Blue    shale    20  240 

Sand    48  288 

Blue    shale   22  310 

Sand   20  330 

Blue    shale    78  408 

Gray  lime  12  420 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale      j                                                .  139  559 

Blue  shale       [  (Devonian)        g  56g 

Lime — "Ragland    sand"    36                    .  601 


LOG  No.  580. 

J.  R.  LYON  FARM. 
Head  of  Blackwater  Creek. 

(From  drillings). 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN   SYSTEM. 

Soil    17  17 

Sand   13  30 

Black   shale   50  80 

Coal    1  81 

Shale 19  100 

White   sand    77  177 

Dark  gray  sand  8  185 

Dark  shale  12  197 

White    sand   4  201 

Dark  slate    6  207 

White    sand    10  217 

Gray  shale  (base  of  Pottsville)  78  295 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Gray    lime — "Big   lime" 47  342 

Greenish  shale  (top  of  Waverly)  33  375 

Light  sand   85  460 

Gray  shale   25  485 

Gray  sand  280  765 

Gray  shale  75  840 

Gray  lime  8  848 

Gray  shale  32  880 

Gray  sand  20  900 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale    "]                           210  1110 

Blue  shale                                      10  1120 

Black  shale     L  (Devonian)         4  1124 

Blue  sha'e                                      6  1130 

Dark  shale  4  1134 


RECORDS   OF  DRILLED  WELLS  449 

Gray  lime — "Ragland  sand"  19  1153 

Brownish  gray  lime   5  1153 

Light  brown  lime  5  1163 

Brownish  gray  lime   5  H68 

White  lime  8  1176 

Brown   lime    18  1194 

SILURIAN  SYSTEM. 

Gray  iime  11  1205 

Very  dark  argillaceous  lime  5  1210 

White  lime  26  1236 

Blue   shale    (Niagaran)    174  1410 

Blue  shale— streaks  of  red  lime  15  1425 

Variegated   lime   36  1461 

Gray  lime   10  1471 

GRDOVICIAN  SYSTEM. 

Blue  argilaceous  lime  29  1500 

Mixed  white  and  blue  limes  135  1635 

Gray  lime  115  1750 

Gray  and  white  limes  150  1900 

White,  blue  and  variegated  limes  265  2165 

Lime  and  shales  mixed 225  2390 

Lime  35  2425 

Dove-colored  lime  mixed  with  green 

quartzite — top  of  Tyrone  75  2500 

Dark  dove-colored  lime  100  2600 

Light  dove-co'ored  lime  140  2740 

Dark  dove-colored  lime  40  2780 

Grayish  dove-colored  lime  40  2820 

Dark  dove-colored  lime  160  2980 

Very  dark  dove-colored  lime  85  3065 

Grayish  dove-colored  lime  20  3085 

Very  dark  lime  30  3115 

Light  dove-colored  lime — green  shale 

at  base  5  3120 

White  sandy  limestone — gas  show — top 

of  Calciferous   11  3131 

As  stated  on  page  178  the  distinction  "Devonian"  as  used  in 
these  records  opposite  the  Black  Shale  does  not  necessarily  mean 
that  all  of  the  B  ack  Shale  is  Devonian  or  that  all  of  the  Devonian 
is  Black  Shale. 

In  many  of  the  records  the  upper  part  of  what  the  driller  includes 
in  the  name  "Black  Shale"  may  belong  in  the  Mississippian  while 
some  of  the  light  shales  below  the  Black  Shale  are  Devonian,  as  is 
a  so  the  "Ragland  sand,"  the  latter  a  limestone. 

Oil  &  Gas— 15 


450  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES   OF  KENTUCKY 

MOBGAN  COUNTY. 

LOG  No.  582. 

CARTER  WELL  No.  1. 

Cannel  City. 
(Partial  record). 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 
PENNSYLVANIAN   SYSTEM. 

Soil    14  14 

To  top  of  "Big  Lime"  806  820 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Big  Lime — Waverly — oil  show  at  970 460  1280 

Brown   shale    (Sunbury)    10  1290 

Berea    30  1320 

Slate    20  1340 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  270  1610 

Shale    , 31  1641 

Lime— oil  at   1645  16  1657 

LOG  No.  583.  TAYLOR  DAY  WELL  No.  1. 

Cannel  City. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN   SYSTEM. 

Soil    15  15 

Red    rock   30  45 

Sand   20  65 

Black   shale   35  100 

Bastard  lime   (?)   80  180 

Sand    45  225 

Black  slate  100  325 

White  sand  75  400 

Slate  and  shells  40  440 

"Settling"  sand  80  520 

Black  slate  (base  of  Pottsville) 20  540 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Dark  lime  30  570 

Pencil   cave   10  580 

"Big  lime"   125  705 

White  shale  50  755 

Waver'.y   shale   435  1190 

Brown   shale    (Sunbury)    35  1225 

White    shale    35  1260 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Brown  shale  286  1546 

White  shale  30  1576 

SILURIAN  SYSTEM. 

Lime— oil   show   at   1588 .  175  1751 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS  451 

LOG  No.  584. 

TAYLOR  DAY  WELL  No.  2. 
Cannel  City. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 
PENNSYLVANIAN   SYSTEM. 

Clay    10  10 

Slate    131  141 

Coal    4  145 

Slate    ..                                   50  195 

Coal    2  197 

Slate    163  360 

Sand    258  618 

Slate    35  653 

Sand    ..                             90  743 

Slate  (base  of  Pottsville  6  749 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

"Little   lime"   14  763 

Pencil    cave    5  768 

"Big   lime"   192  960 

Lime  (?)  shells  50  1010 

Sand    20  1030 

Shale    350  1380 

"Berea"    30  1410 

Lime   shells   90  1500 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  230  1730 

White  shale  25  1755 

Lime— heavy  gas  at  1758— oil  at  1768 20  1775 


LOG  No.  585. 

TERRELL  WELL  No.  1. 
Cannel  City. 

Strata                                                          Thickness  Depth 
PENNSYLVANIAN   SYSTEM. 

Soil    9  9 

Slate  and  shells  131  140 

Slate    -' 30  170 

Sand    254  424 

Slate    8  432 

Sand    78  510 

Slate    10  520 

Shells    15  535 

Sand    85  620 

Slate  (base  of  Pottsville)  10  630 


452  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES   OF  KENTUCKY 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Lime    15  645 

Slate    23  668 

"Big   lime"   132  800 

Sand— oil  show  at  870 75  875 

Waverly  sha'e — oil  show  at  930 405  1280 

Brown  shale   (Sunbury)   10  1290 

Berea    40  1330 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Brown  shale  278  1608 

White  shale  30  1638 

Lime— oil    10  1648 

LOG  No.  586. 

KENTUCKY  BLOCK  CANNEL  COAL  CO.  No.  1. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN   SYSTEM. 

Soil    19  19 

Sand  and  slate  17  36 

Coal    2  38 

Sand    4  42 

Shale    9  51 

Sand    21  72 

Sand  and  slate  101  173 

Sand   27  200 

Sandy  hlack  shale  10  21C 

Pebble  sand  20  230 

Black    slate 16  246 

White  sand— oil  show  at  285 120  366 

Sand  and  shale 6  372 

White    sand    74  446 

Sand  and  slate  11  457 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Lime,    sand    and    black    slate — oil    show 

at  470  43  500 

White    sand    78  578 

Lime    34  612 

Lime  and  dark  slate  34  646 

Lime    47  693 

Green   shale   122  815 

Blue   shale   84  899 

Gray   shale   329  1228 

Black  shale  (Sunbury?)  '. 24  1252 

Berea 18  1270 

Blue  shale  36  1306 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  268  1574 

Gray   shale  34  1608 

Lime— (Ragland   sand)— oil  I  1609 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS  453 

LOG  No.  587. 

KENTUCKY  BLOCK  CANNEL  COAL  CO.  No.  2. 

Cannel  City. 

Strata                                                             Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN   SYSTEM. 

Sand  and  gravel  12  12 

Slate  and  shel's  18  30 

Slate ^ 170  200 

Sand' 260  460 

Slate  and  lime  (?)  40  500 

"Settling"  sand  80  580 

Slate  (bare  of  Pottsville)  64  644 

MISSISSIPFIAN  SYSTEM. 

"Big   lime"    130  774 

Waverly    shale    456  1230 

Brown  shale   (Sunbury)  15  1245 

Berea    20  1265 

Slate    45  1310 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black   shale    (Devonian)    269  1579 

White   slate   32  1611 

Lime — oil    and    gas    show    at    1616 — salt 

water    20  1631 

LOG  No.  588. 

KENTUCKY  BLOCK  CANNEL  COAL  CO.  No.  3. 

Cannel  City. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN   SYSTEM. 

Soil    17  17 

Red  rock  50  67 

Coal    2  69 

B!ack  slate  150  219 

Sand   200  419 

Slate    20  439 

"Settling"  sand  100  539 

Slate    15  554 

Sand    81  635 

Slate  (base  of  Pottsville 15  650 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

"Big  lime"   170  820 

Waverly  shale  440  1260 

Brown  shale  (Sunbury)  10  1270 

Berea    40  1310 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Brown  shale  (Devonian)   ......                      -  279  1589 

White    slate    30  1619 

Lime— strong  gas  at  1622,  oil  at  1624 13  1632 


454 


OIL  AND  GAS   RESOURCES   OF  KENTUCKY 


LOG  No.  589. 

SUSAN  LYKINS  FARM. 

Brushy  Fork. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN   SYSTEM. 

Soil    12  12 

Shale   - 6  18 

Sand    17  35 

Shale— thin  coal  at  43  102                  -     137 

Sand    8  145 

Shale    28  173 

Sand    152  325 

Shale    3  328 

Sand    94  422 

White   pebble-rock  5  427 

Sand   6  433 

Shale    4  437 

Sand    5  442 

Sandy  shale  4  446 

Sand    :. 84  530 

White  pebble-rock  6  536 

Sand   (base  of  Pottsville)   25  561 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

"Litt'.e  lime"   4  565 

Shale    5  570 

"Big  lime"   105  675 

"Waverly"    525  1200 

Black  shale    (Sunbury)    7  1207 

Sandy  lime  35  1242 

Blue   shale   43  1285 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  sha'e  (Devonian)  285  1570 

Light  shale  41  1611 

Lime— oil  at  1615.     Gas  at  1645  49  1660 

LOG  No.  590. 

JESS  MORRIS  FARM. 

Caney  Creek. 
(From  drivings) . 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 
PENNSYLVANIAN   SYSTEM. 

Soil    15  15 

Shale    10  25 

Sand— gas  at  75,  125  and  200 235  260 

Pebble  rock  5  265 

Sand    40  305 

Pebble    rock    13  318 

Dark  shale  and   sand  ...  12  330 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS  455 

Dark  shale   10  340 

Shaly  sand  5  345 

Sjand    _ 35  330 

Pebb'.e  rock  30  410 

Coal    !  411 

Dark  shale   (base  of  Pottsville) 42  453 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM.  • 

Lime    15  468 

Limy    sha'e 5  473 

Lime — "Big    lime"    ., 52  525 

Sand  and  shale — oil  show  at  625 235  760 

Limy    shale    5  765 

Red    sand    1  766 

Dark  blue,  sandy  shale — gas  at  850,  865 

and   920    154  920 

Fine  sand  5  925 

Shale    5  930 

Sand — salt  water _ 10  940 

Dark  sha:e  ,. 33  973 

Sand   2  975 

Dark  shale  37  1012 

Shale  and  sand  16  1028 

Black  sha'e  (Sunbury)  7  1035 

Sand  (Berea)— oil  at  1052 24  1059 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Dark  shale  and  sand  28  1087 

Black  shale,  gas  and  oil  at  1145 283  1370 

Soft  blue  shale  30  1400 

Lime — oil  a  ad   gas   at   1408.     Sa'.t  water 

at  1416  50  1450 

Lime   65  1515 

Sandy  lime— oil  and  gas  at  1525 15  1530 

Lime   87  1617 

Sand   10  1627 

Dark,  sandy  lime  25  1652 

Red    shale    133  1785 

Blue   shale   79  1864 

Lime    .' ., 5  1869 

Blue  shale  22  1891 

Gray  lime  9  1900 

Red  shale  6  1906 

Blue  shale  and  lime  12  1918 

Red  shale  4  1922 

Dark  blue  shale  20  1942 

Dark  lime  25  1967 

Sand    7  1974 

Sandy  and  limy  shales  47  2021 

Base  of  Devonian  indefinite. 
Top  of  Ordovician  indefinite. 


456  OIL  AND  GAS   RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

LOG  No.  591. 

JAMES  STINSON  FARM. 

Caney  Creek. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 
PENNSYLVANIAN   SYSTEM. 

Soil    19  19 

Shale    51  70 

Sand— gas  at  171  250  320 

White  pebble   rock   13  333 

Dark  shale  and  sand  37  370 

Sand    62  432 

White  pebble  rock  46  478 

Shale  (base  of  Pottsville) 27  505 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

"Little   lime"   8  513 

Shale    6  519 

"Bi--   lime"    116  635 

"Waverly"— oil  show  at  710  and  980 457  1092 

Black  shale    (Sunbury)    8  1100 

Sandy  lime  and  shale  55  1155 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black    shale    235  1390 

Very  dark  lime— gas  at  1405 25  1415 

B  ue    shale    63  1478 

Lime— gas  at  1493  47  1525 

Sandy  lime  63  1588 

Blue  lime— gas  at  1592.     Oil  at  1598 21  1609 

LOG  No.  592. 

WHITTAKER  WELL. 
Frisby  Branch  of  Caney  Creek. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 
PENNSYLVANIAN   SYSTEM. 

Soil    40  40 

Slate    100  140 

Cannel  Coal  v 6  146 

Slate    69  215 

Sand    70  285 

S  ate    100  385 

Sand    205  590 

Slate    5  595 

Sand    35  630 

S  ate   60  690 

Sand    70  760 

Slate   (base  of  Pottsville)   ...  10  770 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS  457 

MISSISSIPFIAN  SYSTEM. 

"Little  lime"   6  776 

"Big  lime"— cased  at  782  144  920 

Waverly    shale    470  1390 

Black  shale  (Sunbury)  10  1400 

Berea  grit  30  1430 

White   slate   30  1460 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Brown    shale    302  1762 

White  shale  30  1792 

Lime— oi!  and  gas  at  1795  ....  25  1817 


LOG  No.  593. 

CHARLIE  COFFEY  FARM. 

White  Oak  CreeK. 

Strata                                                             ThickneSo  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN   SYSTEM. 

Soil    11  11 

Slate— oil  show  at  110  99  110 

Gray    sand    75  185 

Blue    slate    30  215 

Coal    4  219 

Blue  slate  81  300 

Gray  sand  160  460 

Blue  slate  22  482 

Blue  lime   13  495 

Blue  slate  5  500 

White  sand  (base  of  Pottsville)  120  620 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Gray  lime — "Little  lime"  12  632 

Blue  slate  6  638 

White  lime     )"Big  lime"  .  30  668 

Bastard  lime  )  Oil  show  at  695 90  758 

Blue  slate   (Waverly)  457  1215 

Black  slate   (Sunbury)   24  1239 

Lime  (place  of  Berea)  40  1279 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  slate  273  1552 

Black   lime   20  1572 

Blue  slate  34  1606 

Gray  lime— oi!  show  at  1610 200  1806 

Sand    11  1817 

Lime. 


458  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

LOG  No.  594.  SAM  REED  FARM. 

Right  Fork  of  White  Oak  Creek. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN   SYSTEM. 

Soil    4  4 

Sand  and  clay  10  14 

Sand   11  25 

Shale    75  100 

Lime   30  130 

Sand   90  220 

Black    shale 10  230 

Sand    90  320 

Blue   shale 35  355 

Bastard  lime  15  370 

White    sand    70  440 

Black  sand  and  shale  5  445 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  lime   50  495 

White  lime  135  630 

Black  s'.ate  35  665 

Sand 25  690 

Blue  slate  260  950 

Black  slate  and  lime  115  1065 

Lime   shells   5  1070 

Black  sha'.e  (Sunbury)  10  1080 

Sand    25  1105 

Lime    30  1135 

White   slate   15  1150 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Brown  shale  267  1417 

B'.ue   shale   3  1420 

Flint  and  shale  :..  35  1455 

Brown  lime  and  shale — 'gas  20  1475 

Brown  lime   80  1555 

LOG  No.  595.  W.  H.  VANCE  FARM. 

Right  Fork  of  White  Oak  Creek. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN   SYSTEM. 

Soil    10  10 

Black  slate  10  20 

Sand    170  190 

Sand  and  slate  breaks  26  216 

Slate , 2  218 

Sand — gas   show  at  248 102  320 

Blue  slate  32  352 

Sand    .  114  466 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS  459 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Blue  slate  3  469 

Sand    5  474 

Blue    slate 4  478 

Sand  and  lime  8  486 

"Big   lime"   19  505 

White   slate   3  508 

Lime    (?)    77  535 

Waverly  shale  265  850 

Black  lime   (?)   40  890 

Waverly    shale    133  1023 

Brown  slate   (Sunbury)   12  1035 

Sand — oil  and  gas  show  24  1059 

Slate   23  1082 

Sand   23  1105 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black   shale   301  1406 

Light    shale    35  1441 

Lime — gas  show  13  1454 


LOG  No.  596. 

"RAINBOW"  WELL. 
West  Liberty. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN   SYSTEM. 

Clay    18  18 

Gray    sand    68  86 

Coal    i 2  88 

Fire  clay  (?)  10  98 

White    sand    230  328 

Black  slate  (base  of  Pottsville)   40  368 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Blue  lime— "Litte  lime"  6  374 

White   slate   40  414 

Lime— "Big    lime" 60  474 

Black  slate  14  488 

Waverly    513  1001 

B  ack  shale  (Sunbury)  16  1017 

Berea — gas   show  17  1034 

White  shale  36  1070 

White    sand   9  1079 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black   shale   259  1338 

B  ue  and  white  shales  50  1388 

Lime   ...                                      185  1573 


460                 OIL  AND  GAS   RESOURCES   OF  KENTUCKY 

LOG  No.  597. 

BURNS  WELL. 
West  Liberty. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN   SYSTEM. 

Clay    18  18 

Sand    68  86 

Coal    2  88 

Shale    10  98 

White    sand    230  328 

Black  slate   (base  of  Pottsville)   40  368 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Blue   lime   6  374 

White   slate   40  414 

"Big   lime"    60  474 

Black  slate  14  488 

Gray  sand  532  1020 

Black  slate   (Sunbury)   25  1045 

White  shale  50  1095 

White  sand   (Berea?)   10  1105 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black   shale   260  1365 

B  ue   shale    , 43  1408 

Sandy  lime— oil  show  30  1438 

SILURIAN  SYSTEM. 

Sand  and  slate  15  1453 

Black  slate  9  1462 

Sandy   lime— oil   40  1502 

Hard  lime  6  1508 

LOG  No.   598. 

REED  No.  1. 
Neil's  Valley. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN   SYSTEM. 

Coal  Measures  sands  and  sha'es 405  405 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

"Big   lime"    110  515 

Slate    40  555 

Waverly    517  1072 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  285  1357 

Slate    31  1388 

Lime— gas  and  oil  show  at  1447 89  1477 

SILURIAN  SYSTEM. 

Sate    17  1494 

Lime— salt  water  at  1540 140  1634 

Red  rock. 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS  461 

LOG  No.  599.  MAY  WELL  No.  1. 

Neil's  Valley. 
Strata  Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Coal  Measures  sand  and  shales  415  415 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

"Big   lime"   125  540 

Slate    33  573 

Waverly    592  1165 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  259  1424 

Slate    -. 17  1441 

Lime — gas  and  oil  show  at  1477,  oil  show 

at  1521,  gas  show  at  1542 201.  1642 

Slate 30  1672 

(Top  of  Silurian  in  201  feet  of  lime.) 

LOG  No.  600.  MAY  WELL  No.  2. 

Neil's  Valley. 
Strata  Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN   SYSTEM. 

Coal  Measures  sand  and  sha'e  355  355 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

"Big   lime"   112  467 

Slate    35  502 

Waverly    508  1010 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  304  1314 

S  ate    30  1344 

Lime — gas  show  at  1351,  oil  show  at  1374, 

oil  and  gas  show  at  1548  251  1595 

Slate    „ 35  1630 

Red  rock  250         1880 

Lime  30         1910 

Slate   161  2071 

Lime — oil  show  at  2080. 

(Top  of  Silurian  in  251  feet  of  lime.) 

LOG  No.  601.  GEO.  CASKY  WELL. 

Elk  Fork. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN   SYSTEM. 

Coal  Measures  sand  and  shales  412  412 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

"Big   lime"   110  522 

Slate    40  562 

Waverly    565  1127 


462  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES   OF  KENTUCKY 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black   shale    310  1437 

White   slate   29  1466 

Lime — gas  at  1466,  oil  show  at  1489,  salt 

water  at  1500  53  1519 

LOG  No.  602.  J.  McLAIN  WELL. 

Elk  Fork. 
Strata  Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIA   SYSTEM. 

Coal  Measures  sand  and  shales  410  410 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

"Big  lime"   105  515 

Slate    .-. 39  554 

Waverly    559  1113 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black    shale   315  1428 

White    slate   , 32  1460 

Lime — tools  lost — abandoned. 

LOG  No.  603.  H.  NEIL  WELL. 

Neil's  Valley. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN   SYSTEM. 

Coal  Measures  sand  and  shale  377  377 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

"Big  lime"    99  476 

Slate  : 35  511 

Waverly    512  1023 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black   shale   310  1333 

White   slate 30  1363 

Lime — oil     show     at     1375,     salt     water 

at  1497  134  1497 

LOG  No.  604.  S.  P.  NICKELL  FARM. 

Stacey  Fork. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Deptn 

PENNSYLVANIAN   SYSTEM. 

Soil    8  8 

Slate    382  390 

Sand    165  555 

Slate    40  595 

Sand 85  680 

Slate    25  705 

Sand    20  725 

Slate  (base  of  Pottsville)  ...                   5  730 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS  463 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

"Little   lime"   25  755 

"Pencil   cave"   5  760 

"Big   lime"   140  900 

Waverly    shale    470  1370 

Brown  shale   (Sunbury)  10  1380 

Berea   Grit   50  1430 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Brown  shale  245  1675 

White   slate   25  1700 

White     sand      (?) — oil     and     gas     show 

at    1706    15  1715 

SILURIAN  SYSTEM. 

Lime    200  1915 

White    sand    6  1921 

Brown  sand   40  1961 

ORDOVICIAN  SYSTEM,  i 

Sand  and  lime  40  2001 

White   slate   6  2007 

Red    rock    100  2107 

White   slate   40  2147 

Red    rock    60  2207 

White   slate   73  2280 

Red  rock  and  shells  110  2390 

Rotten  lime   124  2514 

LOG  No.  605.        JERRY  STAGEY  FARM. 

Stacey  Fork. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN   SYSTEM. 

Soil    25  25 

Shale  and  shells  170  195 

Sand   280  475 

Slate    15  490 

Sand   100  590 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Slate  and  lime  61  651 

"Big  lime"   115  766 

Waver  y    shale    474  1240 

Brown   shale    (Sunbury)    9  1249 

Berea    31  1280 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Brown  shale  -  258  1538 

White   slate    25  15C3 

Sand    6  1569 

Brown   lime    6  1575 

Gas  well. 


464  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES   OF  KENTUCKY 

LOG  No.  606.  JAMES  McCLURE  FARM. 

Grassy  Creek. 

Strata                                                             Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN   SYSTEM. 

Soil    12  12 

Slate 28  40 

Sand    10  50 

Slate    100  150 

Sand   178  328 

Slate    52  380 

Sand    10  390 

Slate  (base  of  Pottsville)   21  411 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

"Little  lime" — cased  at  415  19  430 

"Big  lime" 80  510 

Slate  and  sand  90  600 

Slate    40  640 

Sand    115  755 

Slate  and  shell  228  983 

Sand    34  1017 

Slate    33  1050 

Shale    25  1075 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  247  1322 

White  slate  25  1347 

SILURIAN  SYSTEM. 

Lime— gas  at  1365  63  1410 

Lime— gas  at  1475  122  1532 

ORDOVICIAN  SYSTEM. 

Slate    - 10  1542 

Red  rock  108  1650 

Slate  40  1690 

Red  rock  20  1710 

Slate    30  1740 

Red  rock  10  1750 

Shell  and  slate  60  1810 

Slate  20  1830 

Lime    572  2402 

LOG  No.  607.    FRISBY  BRANCH  OF  CANEY  CREEK. 

Lessor,  W.  M.  Plake.     Lessee,  Eastern  Gulf  Oil  Co. 
Started  April  21,  1917.     Completed  June  7,  1917. 

Total  Depth  1817  feet. 

Strata                                                               Feet  Feet 
PENNSYLVANIAN   SYSTEM. 

Drift    _ 0           to  40 

Slate    40  140 

Cannel  Coal  ...                                              ...  140  146 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS  465 

Slate    146  215 

Sand    215  285 

Slate    285  385 

Salt   sand   385  590 

Slate   590  595 

Sand    595  630 

Slate    630  690 

Sand    690  760 

Slate    760  770 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Little   lime   770  776 

Big   lime,    hard 776  920 

Waverly  shale  920  1390 

Black    1390  1400 

Berea   Grit   1400  1430 

White   slate   1430  1460 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Brown  shale  1460  1762 

White   slate   1762  1792 

Cannel  City  oil. 

Sand    1792  1817 

First  oil  pay  at  2  ft.  6  inch  in  sand.     Second  oil  pay  at  9  ft.  in 

sand.     No  water  showing.    A  strong  flow  of  gas  was  struck  at  1795 

which  was  3  ft.  in  sand.  Oil  also  at  same  depth  rose  500  ft.  in  hole. 
Showing  of  fresh  water  at  390  ft.  enough  to  drill  well.  Well  flooded 
at  500  ft.  6%  inch  casing,  782  ft.  S1^  inch  casing,  20  ft.  Drillers: 
Kelly  Neal  and  W.  S.  Potts. 


LOG  No.  608. 

J.  A.  OLDFIELD  FARM. 

Mize    P.    O. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN   SYSTEM. 

Slate  and  shells  90  90 

White  sand  200  29C 

Slate  (base  of  Pottsville)   50  340 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

"Little   lime"   20  360 

"Big    lime"    115  475 

Waverly  shale  565  1040 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Brown  shale   (Devonian)   185  1225 

White   slate    15  1240 

Brown  shale  ...  6  1246 


466  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

MUHLENBERG  COUNTY. 

LOG  No.  609. 

WELL  BETWEEN  CENTRAL  CITY  AND  KINCHELOE  FERRY. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN   SYSTEM. 

Soil    16  16 

Shale    38  .     54 

Dark  slate  5  59 

Coal   5  64 

Sand   22%  86% 

Coal    5V2  92 

Sandstone   3  95 

Coal    6  101 

Sand   10%  111% 

Coal    3%  115 

Sand    84  199 

Shale    8  207 

Dark  slate  10  217 

Coal  (No.  9)  6  223 

Shale    64    "  287 

Sand    42  329 

Coal    7  336 

Shale  8  344 

Dark  slate  10  354 

Shale   7  361 

Sand    11  372 

Shale    21  393 

Black  slate  13  406 

Coal    3%  409% 

Sandstone   16%  426 

Slate    34  460 

Shale    10  470 

Sand    9  479 

Shale    5  484 

Slate   10  494 

Shale    15  509 

Sand    10  519 

Saidstone  9  528 

Shaly  sandstone  10  538 

Sand    6  544 

Shale    12  556 

Shaly   sand   16  572 

Sand    32  604 

Coal    , 6  610 

Slate   U  625 

Shale    ..                                                                    8  633 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS 


467 


Sand    70 

Slate   5 

Sani    28 

Slate    9 

Black  rock  15 

Sand 39 

Slate   45 

Sand    38 

Lime  and   sand  158 

Dark    slate    48 

Sand  and  lime  37 

Dark  slate  64 

Shale    18 

Sand  and  lime  47 

Slate   27 

Sand  and  lime  29 

Dark  slate  8 

(Probably  all  Pottsville.) 


703 
708 
736 
745 
760 
799 
844 
882 
1040 
1088 
1125 
1189 
1207 
1254 
1281 
1310 
1318 


NICHOLAS  COUNTY. 

LOG  No.  610.  DICK  WHALEY  FARM. 

Near  Myers  Station. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

ORDOVICIAN  SYSTEM, 

Clay 10  10 

"Trenton"  lime* — Gas  shows    at    40,    89 

and   175  200  210 

Gray  lime 490  700 

White   gritty   lime— "Blue    Lick"    water 

at  708  16  716 

*"Trenton"  is  driller's  distinction. 


OHIO  COUNTY. 

LOG  No.  611. 

WELL  1  MILE  S.  E.  OF  SOUTH  CARROLLTON. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN   SYSTEM. 

Soil  70                          70 

Gravel 27                         97 

White  shale  8  105 

Black  shale 10  115 

Coal  (No.  11  ?)  5  120 

Black  slate  10  130 

Dark  shell  3  133 

White  slate 27  160 

Gray  sand  ...                                               40  200 


468                 OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES   OF  KENTUCKY 

Black  slate  35  235 

Coal  (No.  9?)  5  240 

Black  slate  78  318 

White  lime  5  323 

Dark  slate  20  343 

Coal 7  350 

Dark  slate  74  424 

Gray  sand  32  456 

Dark  slate 64  520 

Gray  lime  10  530 

Red  rock  3  533 

Dark  slate  67  600 

Gray  sand  65  665 

White  slate  50  715 

Dark  sand  30  745 

Dark  slate 85  830 

Dark  sand  20  850 

Dark  slate  85  935 

Dark  sand  10  945 

Slate  and  shell  75  1020 

Sand  20  1040 

Dark  slate 55  1095 

White  sand  10  1105 

Dark  slate  195  1300 

White  sand— (probably  base  of  Pottsville  105  1405 
MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Dark  lime  15  1420 

Lime  and  slate 145  1565 

Slate  and  shells  71  1636 

Sand  50  1686 

Dark  lime  35  1721 

White  slate 10  1731 

Dark  lime  20  1751 

Dark  slate  19  1770 

Red  rock  25  1795 

Sand  and  red  rock  30  1825 

Slate  and  lime  shells  40  1865 

Sand  20  1885 

Lime  and  shells  62  1947 

Red  rock  8  1955 

Dark  lime  62  2017 

Sand  38  2055 

Gray  lime  35  2090 

Dark  slate 20  2110 

Gray  sand  12  2122 

The  well  did  not  reach  the  Devonian  shale. 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS  469 

LOG  No.  612. 

WEST  KENTUCKY  OIL  CO.  No.  1. 
5  miles  N.  E.  of  Hartford. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 
MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil  (starts  in  Chester)  14  14 

Lime  5  19 

Blue  shale  16  35 

Lime  and  slate  65  100 

Black  shale  20  120 

Lime  and  shale      4  124 

Slate  ...              24  148 

Slate  and  sandy  lime  22  170 

Blue  shale  15  185 

Sand  and  lime  56  241 

Blue  shale  5  246 

Hard  lime  17  263 

White  sandstone  36  299 

White  lime  14  313 

Sand — Oil  show 8  321 

Lime  6  327 

Sandy  shale  , 3  330 

Lime  9  339 

Black   shale   3  342 

Bluish  lime  28  370 

White  lime  28  398 

Brown  lime— Oil  and  gas  show 30  428 

Hard  white  lime  42  470 

Soft  white  lime  15  485 

Bluish  lime  5  490 

Soft  white  lime  20  510 

Hard  white  lime 5  515 

Blue  shale  5  520 

Blue  lime   10  530 

Brown  lime 10  540 

White  lime  20  560 

Blue    lime 10  570 

Gray  lime  10  580 

White  lime  20  600 

Brown  lime  5  605 

White  lime  5  610 

Brown  lime   10  620 

Gray  lime  10  630 

Brown   lime   7  637 

White  lime  6  643 

Brown  lime  ....  7  650 


470 


OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 


White  lime 47 

Brown  lime  5 

White  lime  6 

Lime — Gas  show  1 

Lime — Water  11 

Lime-^Oil  show  5 

White  lime  10 

Brown  lime  37 

Hard  siliceous  bed  8 

Oil  sand 21 

Sandy  lime  _ 409 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black   shale   100 

Brownish-black    shale   220 

Black   shale   120 

Sandy  lime  21 

Oil  sand  ...  15 


697 

702 
708 
709 
720 
725 
735 
772 
780 
801 
1210 


1310 
1530 
1650 
1671 
1686 


LOG  No.  613. 


.OLDHAM  COUNTY. 

WELL  AT  LA  GRANGE. 
(Partial  record). 


Strata  Feet 
ORDOVICIAN  SYSTEM. 

Gray  lime  at  790 

Dark  gray  lime  at  835 

Light  dove-colored  lime*  at  930 

Dark  dove-colored  lime  at  1025 

White  lime  at  1225 

Dove-colored  lime  at  1260 

Very  dark  dove-colored  lime at     1315  to  1365 

Dove-colored  lime  at  1380 

"Blue  Lick"  water  at  1450 

Light  sandy  limej  at    1450  to  1555 

*Top  of  Tyrone  is  at  900,  about. 

fTop  of  Calciferous  is  between  1380  and  1450. 

(The  first  few  feet  of  the  well  may  be  Silurian  but  the  imperfect 
record  does  not  allow  the  change  from  Silurian  to  Ordovician  to  be 
noted.) 


RECORDS  OP  DRILLED  WELLS  471 

OWSLEY  COUNTY. 

LOG  No.  614. 

LOWER  BUFFALO  CREEK  NEAR  LEE  AND  OWSLEY  CO.  LINE. 
One-half  mile  from  Creek  on  North.  Side. 

Strata                                                          Thickness  Depth 
PENNSYLVANIAN   SYSTEM. 

Clay    5  5 

Slate  21  26 

Sand    -          44  70 

Slate   30  100 

Shells  or  slate  110  210 

Sand   240  450 

Slate   ...                                 25  475 

liISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Little  lime  15  490 

Slate   10  500 

Big  lime  120  620 

Slate 10  630 

Lime   25  655 

Sand   15  670 

White  slate  shells  „     170  840 

Dark  slate  shells 280  1120 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  slate  163  1283 

White  slate  3  1286 

Brown  shale  23  1309 

Pay  at  1317 

Sand   ..                                                                    11  1320 


LOG  No.  615. 

Lessor,  T.  W.  Cooper.     Lessee,  Eastern  Gulf  Oil  Co. 

Started  July  1,  1918.     Completed  August  21,  1918. 

Total  Depth  1423%  feet. 

Feet 

Gas   at   225 

Oil  at  1330 

Salt  water  -    1339 

Cap  rock  

Top  first  pay  1339     Water 

Feet  first  pay  10 

Bottom   first   pay   1349 

Small  show  of  oil  at  1330  feet.    No  show  of  oil  after  salt  water. 


472 


OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES   OF  KENTUCKY 


Strata                                                   Feet  Feet 
PENNSYLVANIAN   SYSTEM. 

Clay   ..................................................      1  5 

Slate    ................................................      5  18 

Coal  ....................................................     18  19% 

Slate  shells  ......................................     19V2  20 

Coal  ....................................................     90  94 

Slate  shells  ......................................     94  210 

Sand    ..................................................  210  225    Water 

Sand    ..................................................  225  300 

Break   slate   ....................................  300  310 

Sand    sher.s    ....................................  310  380 

Slate   ..................................................  380  400 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

S:ate  shells  ......................................  400  490 

Big  lime  ............................................  490  500     6*4  in.  casing 

Bottom  big  lime  ............................  500  655 

Slate   ..................................................  655  675 

Shells  and  slate  ..............................  675  745 

.  Slate  and  shells  ............................  745  805 

Red  rock  ..........................................  805  810 

Slate  and  shel  s  ..............................  810  890 

Black  shale  ........................................  890  920 

Slate  and  shells  ............................  920  1100 

Shell   ..................................................  1100  1102 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Brown  shale  ....................................  1102  1135 

White  slate  ......................................  1296  1302 

Black  shale  ......................................  1302  1328 

Top  sand  .......................................  1328 

Salt  water  ........................................  1338 

Casing  4  7-8  ...  1348 

Pulled  casing  and  reamed  to  1358  feet. 

Set  casing  at  1358  feet. 

White  sand  10  feet  below  casing. 

Brown  sand  50  feet  in  sand,  looked  very  good. 

Dark  brown  sand  at  60  feet. 

Gray  sand  from  70  feet  to  1423%  feet. 

8*4  in.  casing  —  47  feet  out. 

ei/i  in.  casing  —  500  feet  out. 

4%  in.  casing—  1349  feet  out. 

Total  depth  1423%  feet. 

Well  plugged  and  abandoned. 

Arnes  Drilling  Co.,  Contractors. 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS  473 

PERRY  COUNTY. 

LOG  No.  616. 

WELL  AT  CHAVIES  STATION. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN   SYSTEM. 

Sand    36  36 

Slate,  gravel,  etc 74  110 

Sand    20  130 

Lime   (?)   15  145 

Slate   115  260 

Sand    35  295 

Slate  and   shale   205  500 

Sand  50  550 

Lime   (?)   50  600 

Shale    100  700 

Sand — sa't  water  220  920 

Slate   5  925 

Sard    60  985 

Black  slate   (base  of  Pottsville)   25  1010 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Red  shale  18  1028 

Sand   212  1240 

Red  rock  5  1245 

S'ate  and  shells  64  1309 

Lime  12  1321 

Slate  14  1335 

"Pencil  cave"  6  1341 

"Big  lime"  200  1541 

Sand  and  lime  23  1564 

Red  shale  51  1615 

Sandy   slate    50  1665 

Black  slate  135  1800 

Sandy  lime  20  1820 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale— gas  show  at  2075 315  2135 

Sand  and  lime  16  2151 

B  ack  slate  22  2173 

SILURIAN  SYSTEM. 

Slate   33  2206 

Sandy  lime  194  2400 

Slate   58  2458 

Red  sha!e  - 32  2490 

Slate  56 

Lime  and  shale  70 

Slate  and  lime  29 

Pink   shale   10 

Lime  and  shells  90  2745 


feK 


474  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES   OF  KENTUCKY 

LOG  No.  617. 

WELL  1  MILE  NORTH  OF  CHARIER  STATION. 

Elevation  790,  Approx. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 
PENNSYLVANIAN   SYSTEM. 

Sand  and  gravel  17  17 

Black  slate  63  80 

White  sand  55  135 

Dark  slate  82  217 

Sand 44  261 

Slate  7  268 

Sand 43  311 

Slate  196  507 

White  sand  45  552 

Slate  30  582 

Sand    313  895 

Sand  and  s'.ate 15  910 

Sand— salt  water  at  1126  and  1165 267  1177 

Slate  (base  of  Pottsville)  5  1182 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Red   shale  8  1190 

Sand   :. 19  1209 

Red  shale 7  1216 

Black  slate  45  1261 

Sand    7  1268 

Slate  7  1275 

Lime  21  1296 

Black  slate  24  1320 

Lime— "Big  lime"  233  1553 

Slate  and  shale  _ 87  1640 

Sand   235  1875 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  (Devonian)  270  2145 

Slate   34  2179 

SILURIAN  SYSTEM. 

Lime   168  2347 

Sand   17  2364 

Lime   25  2389 

ORDOVICIAN  SYSTEM. 

Slate   396  2785 

Lime   .  315  3100 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS  475 

LOG  No.  618. 

WELL  AT  FORKS  OF  BIG  CREEK. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN   SYSTEM. 

Black  slate  305  305 

Sand — trace  of  oil  at  372 230  535 

Slate   „ 15  550 

Sand   50  600 

Slate  , 15  615 

Sand   85  700 

Slate  15  715 

Sand — salt  water  at  1190  598  1313 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Lime 27  1340 

Sand    14  1354 

Slate  31  1385 

Lime   31  1416 

Slate  8  1424 

Sand   12  1436 

Slate   46  1482 

Sand— salt  water  at  1510-1517 35  1517 


LOG  No.  619. 

BUFFALO  CREEK. 

Rice  Oil  Co. 

Casing  Head  Elevation1  879  ft. 

Started  March  21,  1917.     Completed  July  1,  1917. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 
PENNSYLVANIAN   SYSTEM. 

Sand  gravel  10                         10 

Sand   5                        15 

S  ate  cave  with  water 10                         25 

Sand   20                         45 

Slate  with  water  5                        50 

Sand 40                         90 

Slate   and  shells   40                      130 

Sandstone    20                        150 

Slate  and  shells  185                       335 

Three  feet  coal  at  290. 

Sandy  lime  -  105 

Lime  broken   35                      475 

Shale    25 

Black  lime   30 

Slate    - 45                       575 

Sand   ..                            40                       615 


476  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES   OF  KENTUCKY 

Lime,  hard  8  623 

Slate  62  685 

Sand,  hard  and  sharp  165  850 

Slate   20  870 

Black  lime  15  885 

Slate   15  900 

Sand 140  1040 

Slate,   black   35  1075 

Sand,  hard   135  1210 

Slate   6  1216 

Sand,  hard  and  close  130  1346 

Slate  94  1440 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Sand   60  1500 

Slate  and  shells  60  1560 

Sand   85  1645 

Slate   45  1690 

Sand    85  1775 

Sandy  lime,  shells  and  slate  75  1850 

Shelly   slate  50  1900 

"Little  Lime"  10  1910 

Slate  Cave,  cemented  "Pencil  Cave" 55  1965 

Big   lime    230  1155 

Red  lime  30  2285 

Slate  and  shells  145  2370 

Lime,  hard  10  2380 

Slate   90  2470 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  330  2800 

Black  shale,   shelly  65  2865 

White  shale 47  2912 

SILURIAN  SYSTEM. 

Sandy  lime  156  3068 

Slate   5  3072 

Gas  at  2475  feet. 

Gas  at  2585  feet. 

Salt  water  1740  feet. 

50  feet — 10  inch  casing. 

1215  feet — 8  inch  casing. 

1780  feet— 6%  inch  casing. 

Should  have  been  300  feet — 10  inch  casing. 

1965  feet— 6%  inch  casing. 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS  477 

PIKE  COUNTY. 

LOG  No.  620.  MAY  FARM. 

Bear  Fork  of  Robinson  Creek. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN   SYSTEM. 

Soil    '  34                          34 

Gray  sand  27                         61 

Slate 32                          93 

Dark  sand  53  146 

Black  slate  3  149 

Dark  sand  11  160 

Sandy   slate   18  178 

Blue  sand — salt  water  59  237 

Black  slate  7  244 

White  sand  78  322 

Sandy  slate  30  352 

Black  slate  32  384 

Blue  sand  21  405 

Black  s  ate 57  462 

Sand 37  499 

Black  slate  67  566 

Sand  (Beaver  and  Horton) — salt  water....  279  845 

Black  slate  35  880 

Sani   (Pike— gas,  salt  water 395  1275 

Black  slate  (base  of  Pottsville  32  1307 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Dark  slate  (top  of  Chester)  33  1340 

Sand    60  1400 

Light  s'ate  90  1490 

Red  shale  6  1496 

Slate   33  1529 

Gray  sand  63  1592 

Lime   8  1600 

Slate   30  1630 

Sand  (Big  Injun?)— gas  56  1686 

Dark   slate   65  1751 

LOG  No.  621. 

WELL  ON  CEDAR  CREEK. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN   SYSTEM. 

Soil    41                          41 

Light  slate  23                         64 

Sand   10 

Dark  slate  40                       114 

Sand   10 

Light  slate  96                       220 


478  OIL  AND  GAS   RESOURCES   OF  KENTUCKY 

Coal    4                        224 

Dark  slate  176                       400 

Sand    25                        425 

Black  slate  75                       500 

White  sand   (Beaver  and  Horton?)   285                        785 

Dark  slate  72                        857 

Sand  (Pike  and  Salt?)  310  1167 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Shelly  slate  108  1275 

Red  shale  105  1380 

White  sand  40  1420 

Black  slate  5  1425 

Sand   74  1499 

LOG  No.  622. 

WELL  ON  CEDAR  CREEK. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN   SYSTEM. 

Soil    52                          52 

Slate  42                         94 

Light  sand 36                       130 

Light  slate  88                        218 

Light  sand  33                       251 

Light  slate  79                       330 

Black  slate  45                       375 

Gray  sand  51                       426 

Slate  53                       479 

Sand    (Beaver    and    Horton?) — gas — salt 

water  278                       757 

Black  slate  64                        821 

Sand   (Pike)   59                        880 

Light  slate  50                        930 

Sand   (salt  sand)— gas— salt  water 202  1132 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  slate  49  1181 

Black  sand 14  1195 

Dark  slate 16  1211 

Dark  limy  sanfl  25  1236 

Black  lime  12  1248 

Shelly   slate  10  1258 

Red  shale  20  1278 

Gray  sand  3  1281 

Red   shale  69  1350 

Gray  lime  ("Big  lime" — nearly  cut  out)....  1  1351 

White  sand  62  1413 

Black  slate  27  1440 

White  sand  (Big  Injun?)— oil— salt  water  61  1501 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS  479 

LOG  No.  623. 

WELL  ON  BIG  CREEK. 

Strata                                                          Thickness  Depth 
PENNSYLVANIAN   SYSTEM. 

Soil    24  24 

Slate  10  34 

Gray  sand  12  46 

Dark  slate  8  54 

Gray  sand  35  89 

Slate  10  99 

Gray  sand  21  120 

Dark  slate  4  124 

Sand   15  139 

Dark   slate   46  185 

Limy    sand    15  200 

Gray  sand  55  255 

Slate   80  335 

Coal    4  339 

Sand   42  381 

Slate   64  445 

Lime   10  455 

Slate  30  485 

Black  sand  10  495 

Slate  15  610 

Sand    75  585 

Slate  15  600 

White  sand   (Beaver)  355  955 

Slate  27  982 

Sand  (Horton)  130  1112 

Coal    3  1115 

Sand  (Pike)— gas  and  salt  water  134  1249 

Coal    3  1252 

Dark  sand  12  1264 

Dark  slate  24  1288 

White  sand  152  1440 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  slate  24  1464 

White  sand— salt  water  61  1525 

"Big   lime"   215  1740 

Dark  sand  -  25  1765 

Slate  15  1780 

Mauch  Chunk  cut  out  and  replaced  by  PottsviHe  sands. 


4SO                 OIL  AND  GAS   RESOURCES   OF  KENTUCKY 

LOG  No.  624.  BOWLES  FARM. 

Hurricane  Creek. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN   SYSTEM. 

Soil    18                          18 

Gray  sand  27                          45 

Dark  slate  50                         95 

Gray  sand  15  110 

Dark  slate  48  158 

Gray  sand  46  204 

Dark  slate  81  285 

Gray  sand  45  330 

Light   slate  53  383 

Black  slate  25  408 

Gray    sand    40  448 

Dark   slate   132  580 

Gray  sand  40  620 

Dark  slate  50  670 

Sand   (Beaver  and  Horton?)— salt  water  260                       930 

Dark  slate  52  982 

White  sand  (Pike)— gas  59  1041 

Dark  slate  12  1053 

Sand   (Salt  sand)— salt  water  187  1240 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  slate  30  1270 

Gray  sand  32  1302 

Black  slate  12  1314 

Limy    sand    18  1332 

Light  slate  17  1349 

White  sand  13  1362 

Lime  16  1378 

Slate  5  1383 

Red  shale  and  slate  49  1432 

Sand— gas  and  salt  water  222  1654 

Black  slate  108  1762 

Lime  ...  2  1764 


LOG  No.  625.  WELL  ON  POOR  FARM. 

2  Miles  from  Pikeville. 

Strata   .  Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN   SYSTEM. 

Soil    52  52 

Gray  sand  8  60 

Slate  I 75  135 

Sand    29  164 

Slate   76  240 

Sand    ..  40  280 


RECORDS  OP  DRILLED  WELLS 


481 


Slate  154 

Sand    24 

Slate   60 

White  sand  (Beaver  and  Horton?)  289 

Black  slate  56 

White  sand  (Pike?)  52 

Black  slate  5 

White  sand  147 

Black  slate  7 

Sand   61 

Slate   5 

Sand    12 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Shelly  slate 35 

Sand   47 

Light  slate  25 

Sand    20 

Sandy  slate  12 

Sand   16 

Gray  lime  12 

Dark  slate  3 

Red    rock    88 

White  sand  7 

Black  s'ate  15 

Dark  lime  4 

Black  slate  70 

White  sand — gas  36 

Red  slate  21 

White  sand — salt  water  ...  27 


434 

458 

518 

807 

863 

915 

920 

1067 

1074 

1135 

1140 

1152 

1187 
1234 
1259 
1279 
1291 
1307 
1319 
1322 
1410 
1417 
1432 
1436 
1506 
1542 
1563 
1590 


LOG  No.  626. 

SCHONSBERG  WELL. 
Caney  Fork  of  Johns  Creek. 

Strata  Thickness 

PENNSYLVANIAN   SYSTEM. 

Soil    42 

Slate   

Gray  sand  

Slate   216 

Gray  sand  

Slate   66 

Sand   57 

Slate  13 

Lime  

Sand   9 

Lime  

Sand   8 


Depth 

42 

72 
104 
320 
355 
421 
478 

49 
499 
508 
513 
521 


Oil  &  Gas— 16 


482  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

Slate  20  541 

Sand    22  563 

Slate  12  575 

Sand    s 65  640 

Slate  15  655 

White  sand  (Beaver  and  Horton)  230  885 

Slate    _ 30  915 

Sand  (Pike  and  Salt)  421  1336 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Red  rock  18  1354 

Slate  5  1359 

Sand   77  1436 

Red  shale  and  slate  64  1500 

"Big  lime" — oil  and  gas  at  1615 240  1740 

Slate  55  1795 

Reddish  sand  80  1875 

Slate  260  2135 


LOG  No.  627. 

HENRY  TAYLOR  FARM. 
Brushy  Fork  of  Johns  Creek. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN   SYSTEM. 

Soil 13  13 

Sand   42  55 

Slate  160  215 

Sand   70  285 

Black  slate  50  335 

Coal   5  340 

Light  slate  7  347 

Sand   .:  38  385 

Dark  slate  „  113  498 

Sand    69  567 

Dark   slate   65  632 

Sand   33  665 

Black  slate  35  700 

Sand   17  712 

Slate  26  738 

Sand  (Beaver) — gas  and  salt  water 72  810 

Slate  11  821 

Sand    (Horton)    99  920 

Dark  slate  5  925 

White  sand      \            sa'.t  water 47  972 

Dark  slate       (.     (Pike)   5  977 

White  sand      J            salt  water 41  1018 

Sandy   slate   54  1072 

White,  pebbly  sand — gas  and  salt  water  129  1201 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS  483 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Lime   (top  of  Chester) 15  1216 

Black  slate  18  1234 

Red  shale  22  1256 

Blue  slate  34  1290 

Lime  15  1305 

Sand— salt  water  83  1388 

Slate  2  1390 


LOG  No.  628. 

FLEM   MAYNARD   FARM. 
Big  Branch  of  Brushy  Fork. 

Strata                                                          Thickness  Depth 
PENNSYLVANIAN   SYSTEM. 

Soil    9  9 

Sand   4  13 

Light  slate  27  40 

Gray  sand  54  94 

Dark   slate   11  105 

White  sand  37  142 

Dark  slate 62  204 

White  sand  30  234 

Black  slate  .-. 16  250 

Coal   3  253 

Light  slate  7  260 

Gray  sand  105  365 

Dark  Slate  31  396 

Coal   ! 4  400 

Dark  slate  10  410 

Sand  (Beaver)— salt  water  82  492 

Black  slate 70  562 

White  sand   (Morton)  21  683 

Slate  208  791 

White  sand  (Pike)— gas  and  salt  water....  251  1042 

Black  slate  13  1055 

Sand   ...:. 12  1067 

Black  slate  68  1135 

Sand  (salt  sand)— gas  and  salt  water 152  1287 

Coal    1  1288 

Sand  (base  of  Pottsville)  24  1312 


484                 OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES   OF  KENTUCKY 

A1ISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Red  shale  12  1324 

Sandy  slate  15  1339 

White  sand  61  1400 

Lime   12  1412 

Slate   8  1420 

Sand    77  1497 

Sandy  slate  24  1521 

Gray  sand  18  1539 

Sandy  slate  27  1566 

"Big  lime"  214  1780 

Blue  sand  20  1800 

Slate   410  2210 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Dark  brown  slate  47  2257 


LOG  No.  629. 

JEFF  HENDRICK  WELL. 
Upper  Chloe  Creek. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil    41                          41 

Black  slate  49                         90 

Gray  sand  18  108 

Coal   2  110 

Slate  50  160 

Sand    20  180 

Shelly   slate  160  340 

Gray  sand  52  392 

Dark    slate   83  475 

Gray    sand    55  530 

Shelly   slate   143  673 

White  sand  62  735 

Slate 20  755 

Gray  sand 21  776 

White  sand  294  1070 

Coal   1  1071 

Gray  and  white  sand  81  1152 

Slate   11  1162 

White  sand  74  1236 

Slate   106  1342 

White  sand— salt  water  at  1362 52  1394 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS  485 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Slate   44  1438 

Sand    14  1452 

Slate  24  1476 

Sand   18  1494 

Slate   20  1514 

White  sand  66  1570 

Slate   21  1591 

Very  black  slate  6  1597 

Gray  and  white  sand  12  1609 

Slate   41  1650 

Gray  sand  29  1679 

White  sand  19  1698 

Slate   _.  20  1718 

Gray  sand  18  1736 

Slate   5  1741 

Lime   24  1765 

Red   shale 14  1779 

Lime   136  1915 

Slate  10  1925 

Sandy  lime  35  1960 

Slate   (caving)  30  1990 

POWELL  COUNTY. 

LOG  No.  630. 

J.  F.  MARTIN  FARM. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 
MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 


Clay 


3 


Shale    ..................................................................     192  195 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  •     129 


Light  sha-e         (Ionian)         ....................  30  354 

Brown  :ime  —  "Ragland  sand"  —  gas  show..  20  374 

SILURIAN  SYSTEM. 

Shale   ..................................................................  H3  487 

Lime   ....................................................................  10  «7 

Shale    ..................................................................  23  520 

Lime   ....................................................................  30  550 

Shale   ................................................................  15  565 

ORDOVICIAN  SYSTEM. 

Lime   ...                                                               -  253  818 

LOG  No.  631. 

J.  F.  MARTIN  FARM. 

strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 


................  5 

Shale""         I_I_  ................................    270  275 


486 


OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES   OF  KENTUCKY 


DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black   shale    125  400 

Lime— "Ragland  sand" — gas  show  24  424 

SILURIAN    SYSTEM. 

Shale    140  564 

Brown   lime   10  574 

Shale  6  580 

Lime  95  675 

Shale   12  687 

ORDOVICIAN  SYSTEM. 

Lime  122  809 

LOG  No.  632. 

J.  F.  MARTIN  FARM. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

C'ay  10  10 

Shale  215  225 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black   shale   125  350 

Lime — "Ragland  sand" — gas  24  374 

SILURIAN   SYSTEM. 

Shale   i 141  515 

Brown   lime   10  525 

Shale   5  530 

Lime— oil  show  80  610 

Shale   15  625 

ORDOVICIAN  SYSTEM. 

Lime  150  775 

Shale   10  785 

Lime   -  29  814 


LOG  No.  633. 

WHITE  FARM— No.  5. 

(Partial  record). 
Strata  Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN   SYSTEM. 

Soil    24  24 

Sand   160  184 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 
Interval. 

"Big   lime"    106  472 

Interval. 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Brown  shale  148  1116 

Fire  clay  19  1135 

Top  of  "oil  sand"  1135 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS 


487 


LOG  No.  634. 


WILLIAMS  No.  1. 
Stanton. 


Strata 
DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil  and  sand  

Black  shale     > 

White  shale   [  (Devonian) 

"Irvine  sand" — gas  at  155 

Light  shale  

"Oil  sand"— oil  ... 


Thickness 

..  24 
..  108 
..  18 

8 
..  59 

7 


Depth 

24 
132 
150 
158 
217 
224 


LOG  No.  635. 


STARRS  FARM. 
Barker  Branch. 


Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil    39  39 

Lime 125  164 

Sha'e   101  265 

Lime  shale  98  363 

Gray  shale 383  746 

"Gas  sand"  18  764 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  137  901 

"Fire    clay"    15  916 

"Oil  sand"— oil  ...  18  934 


LOG  No.  636. 


WINGATE  ANDERSON  FARM. 


Thickness 


Strata 
MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil    20 

Shale    30 

Lime   5 

Sha'  e    35 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  -     135 

Light  sha:e  •     140 

Lime — oil    show    at    400.    Gas    show    at 

1200  -     985 

Brown  lime  (Tyrone?)  262 

(Ragland  sand  cut  out). 
Base  of  Devonian  indefinite. 


Depth 

20 
50 
55 


225 
365 


1350 
1612 


488  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES   OF  KENTUCKY 

LOG  No.  637. 

SUSAN  HANKS  FARM. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Clay    -...         4  4 

Black    shale    126  130 

Lime — "Raglac'd    sand"    13  143 

SILURIAN  SYSTEM. 

Shale    52  195 

Lime — oil    show    3  198 

Sha'e    12  210 

Lime — salt  water  15  225 

Shale    10  235 

Lime   ...                                                                      78  313 


LOG  No.  638. 

J.  R.  EWEN  FARM. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM 

Cay    '. 22  22 

Black    shale    134  156 

Lime — "Ragland  sand"  10  166 

SILURIAN  SYSTEM. 

Shale    J 54  220 

Lime  3  223 

Shale    10  233 

Lime   320  553 

(Base  of  Silurian  not  defined.) 


LOG  No.   639. 

O.  M.  LAW  FARM. 

Depth 

12 
150 
160 


200 
203 
214 
506 


Strata 
FENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 
Clay                         

Thick 
12 

Black  shale 

138 

Lime—  "Ragland  sand"  

10 

SILURIAN  SYSTEM. 
Sha'e 

40 

Lime  —  oil    show                           

3 

Shale                           

11 

Lime                                         

292 

(Ba~e  of  Silurian  not  defined.) 

RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS 

LOG.  No.  640.  C.  B.  SKIDMORE  FARM. 

Strata  Thickness 

M1SSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil     25 

Shale    100 

Lime    2 

Shale    10 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black    shale    170 

SILURIAN  SYSTEM. 

Light    shale    143 

Lime     1059 

(Ragland  sand  cut  out.) 
(Ba~e  of  Silurian  not  denned.) 

LOG  No.  641.  WM.  TRUETT  FARM. 

Strata  Thickness 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Clay    10 

Shale    90 

Red  rock  '. 15 

Shale    45 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black   shale    >                     x  120 

Light  shale  ..  (  (Dev°nia*>  10 

Lime — "Rag'and    sand"    5 

SILURIAN  SYSTEM. 

Shale    -  H» 

Lime     1° 

Shale    20 

Lime    10 

Shale    10 

Lime    154 

(Base  of  Silurian  not  defined.) 

LOG  No.  642.  MILES  FORKNER  FARM. 

Strata  Thickness 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Clay    I4 

Black   shale   ... 

Light    shale    

Lime— "Ragland    sand"  7 

SILURIAN  SYSTEM. 

Shale   

Lime    

Shale    

Gray  lime— oil  show  ... 

Lime    21 


489 
Depth 


125 
127 
137 

307 

450 
1509 


Depth 

10 
100 
115 
160 

280 
290 
295 

410 
420 
440 
450 
460 
614 


Depth 

14 
132 
135 
142 

195 
198 
210 
.'3) 
251 


490  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES   OF  KENTUCKY 

LOG  No.  644. 

JAS.  H.  LANE  FARM. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil    22  22 

Black  shale  80  102 

Brown    lime — "Ragland    sand" — Gas    and 

salt  water  10  112 

SILURIAN   SYSTEM. 

Shale    48  160 

Lime     15  175 

Shale    5  180 

Lime 627  807 

(Base  of  Silurian  not  defined.) 


LOG  No.  645. 

ROBERT  ROSE  FARM. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Slate    and    gravel 13  13 

Black  Shale  (Devonian)  87  100 

Lime —   "Ragland   sand" —  gas   and   salt 

water    20  120 

SILURIAN   SYSTEM. 

Shale    80  200 

Lime     680  880 

(Base  of  Silurian  not  defined.) 


LOG  No.  646. 

JAMES    WELSH    FARM. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Clay    17                          17 

Black  shale  „ 8                         25 

Brown  lime — "Ragland  sand"  24                         49 

SILURIAN   SYSTEM. 

Shale    65  114 

Blue  lime— Oil  at  133  19  133 

Shale    14  147 

Lime— Gas  at  310  534  681 

Brown    shale    19  700 

Lime    251  951 

(Base  of  Silurian  not  defined.) 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS 


491 


LOG  No.  647. 


LUTHER  STEPHENS  FARM. 


Thickness 


Strata 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil    13 

Black  shale  117 

SILURIAN   SYSTEM. 

Light    shale    62 

Brown  lime— Oil  show  4 

Blue  shale  10 

Lime    1001 

(Ragland  sand  cut  out.) 
(Base  of  Silurian  not  defined.) 


Depth 

13 
130 

192 

196 

206 

1207 


LOG  No.   648. 


LUTHER    STEPHENS   FARM. 


Thickness 


Strata 
DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Clay    14 

Black   shale   ...  .     126 


Lime— "Ragland    sand" 
SILURIAN  SYSTEM. 

Light  shale  

Brown  lime — oil  show 

Shale    

Lime    ... 


Depth 

14 
140 
150 

195 
196 
209 
3C4 


LOG  No.  649. 


O.  A.  LISLE  FARM. 


Strata 
M1SSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 
Clay 

Thick] 
15 

2 

Shale 

15 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 
Black   -jhale 

135 

10 

SILURIAN   SYSTEM, 
ghale                                       

50 

Lime                            

2 

Shale                          -'-  

86 

GRDOVICIAN  SYSTEM. 
T.ime     .. 

522 

Depth 

15 
17 
32 

167 
177 

227 
229 
315 

837 


492 


OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 


LOG  No.  650. 

A.  M.   SWANGO   FARM. 
Strata  Thickness  Depth 

AIISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Clay    11  11 

Shale    10  21 

Lime    3  24 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  163  137 

Lime — "Ragland  sand"   10  197 

SILURIAN  SYSTEM. 

Shale    43  240 

Lime - 3  243 

Shale    10  253 

Blue  lime  , 997  1250 

Brown  lime  251  1501 

(Base  of  Silurian  not  defined.) 


LOG  No.  651. 

MAXWELL  FARM. 

Strata  Thickness 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Clay 18 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  160 

Lime — "Ragland  sand"  5 

SILURIAN  SYSTEM. 

Shale  ....  .     107 


Lime — Oil   show  

Shale 

GRDOVICIAN  SYSTEM. 

Gray  lime — Oil  show  

Blue  lime 

Gray  lime — Oil  show  

Blue  lime  

Gray  lime  


5 
30 

10 

85 

2 

318 
62 


Depth 


18 


178 
183 


295 
325 

335 
420 
422 
740 

802 


LOG  No.  652. 

ROBERT  BOYD  FARM. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

"Big  lime"  120  120 

Green  shale 20  140 

White  shale  ....  .     470  610 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS  493 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  147  757 

"Fire  clay"       (shale)  18  775 

Lime — "Oil  sand" — Salt  water  at  776 11  786 

White  lime  12  798 

SILURIAN  SYSTEM. 

Blue  lime — Salt  water  10  808 

White  lime  21  829 

Blue  lime  26  855 

PULASKI  COUNTY. 

LOG  No.  653. 

WELL  AT  EUBANKS. 

(Partial  record.) 
Strata 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Light   lime   at     50 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Dark  shale at  120  and  160 

Black  shale  at  360  to  400 

Gray  lime  at  400  and  500 

Dark  shaly  lime  at  540 

SILURIAN   SYSTEM. 

Light  shale  at  675 

Motted  red  lime at  695  and  700 

Gray  and  white  lime  at  728 

ORDOVICIAN  SYSTEM. 

Gray  lime — Gas  show  at  800 

Very  dark  lime  , .~~...at  825,  870  and  9i' 

Light  gray  lime  at  1045,  1100  and  1125 

Top  of  Tyrone  about  at  1200 

Dove-colored  lime at  1230,  1235  and  1240 

Light  green  sandstone  at  1245 

Dove-colored  lime  at  1250,  1330,  1400  and  1520 

Bottom  at  1520 

LOG  No.  654.  J.  R.  C.  LATHAM  FARM. 

Near  Rockcastle  line. 
Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Lime  125  125 

Blue  shale  175  300 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Brown  shale  62  362 

Lime— Oil  show  at  365  3  365 

Sand  ...  .     110  475 


494 


OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 


LOG  No.  655. 


EOCKCASTLE  COUNTY. 

WELL  NEAR  MULLEN'S  STATION. 
Thickness 


Strata 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Sandstone   (base  of  Pottsville  100 

MISS1SSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

"Big  lime"   100 

Sand    150 

Shale    , 200 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black   shale   150 

Sandy  lime— "Rag'and  sand"  20 

SILURIAN  SYSTEM. 

Shale    30 

Lime    ..  .     740 


Depth 
100 

200 
350 
550 

700 
720 

750 
1490 


LOG  No.  656. 

E.  M.  CUMMINS  -•••-'•• 
3  Miles  W.  of  Mt.  Vernon. 
Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Lime    80  80 

Blue   shale   230  310 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  70  380 

"Fire-clay"    (Shale)    14  394 

White  sand  (?)  35  429 

SILURIAN  SYSTEM. 

"Fire  clay"  (Shale)  8  437 

Lime    813  1250 

(Base  of  Silurian  not  defined.) 


LOG  No.  657.  \ 

JAKE  BRAY  FARM. 
4  Miles  W.  of  Mt.  Vernon. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Lime    100  100 

Blue  shale  260  100 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  (Devonian)  70  430 

Lime    20  450 

Lime  and  sand — Oil  show  at  453  6  456 

SILURIAN  SYSTEM. 

Lime     .  14  470 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS  495 

LOG  No.  658. 

WILMER  CHESNUT  FARM 
3  Miles  S.  E.  of  Mt.  Vernon. 

Strata                                                          Thickness  Depth 
MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Clay  10  10 

Lime   23  33 

Blue  slate  10  43 

Lime    5  48 

Clay    ..                                          1  49 

Lime   19  68 

Blue  slate  22  90 

Lime  17  107 

Blue   shale   87  194 

Lime    56  250 

Blue   shale   100  350 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  103  453 

Fire-clay    (Shale)   10  463 

Lime 2  465 

Sand— Oil  show  at  502  62  527 

SILURIAN  SYSTEM. 

Lime    40  567 

Sand— Oil  show  at  567  11  578 

Lime   ...  5  583 


LOG  No.  659. 

JOSIAH  MEECE  FARM. 
Skeggs  Creek. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Lime    120  120 

Blue   shale   10  130 

Lime    8  138 

Blue   shale    205  343 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black   shale 70  413 

"Fire-clay"    (Shale)   14  427 

Lime    32  459 

SILURIAN   SYSTEM. 

Yellow  lime— Oil  show  9  468 

Lime   12  480 


496 


OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES   OF  KENTUCKY 


LOG  No.  660. 

H.   C.  KIRBY  FARM. 

Skeggs  Creek. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Lime— Oil  show  at  71  and  110 205  205 

Blue  shale — Gas  show  at  300 233  438 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  70          508 

"Fire-clay"  (shale)  12         520 

Sand(?)  45          565 

SILURIAN  SYSTEM. 

Lime  10  575 


LOG  No.  661. 

M.  F.   TREADWAY  FARM. 

Cove  Branch. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Blue  shale 70                         70 

Lime  25                          95 

Blue  shale  80                       175 

Lime  35                        210 

Blue   shale  80                       290 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Brown  shale  100                        390 

"Fire-clay"  (shale)  16                       406 

Lime  32                        409 

SILURIAN  SYSTEM. 

"Fire  clay"   (shale)   32                       413 

Sand— Oil  show  at  453  53                       466 

Lime  45                       511 

Sand— Oil  show  at  511  10                       521 

Lime  : 10                       531 

LOG  No.  662. 

WELL  NEAR  JOHNETTA. 

Brush  Creek. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 
MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Sand  and  gravel  30                         30 

Lime — "Big   lime"    95                       125 

Blue  shale 165                       290 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale 115                        405 

Lime    (Corniferous?)    10                       415 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS  497 

SILURIAN  SYSTEM. 

Green  shale  50  465 

Lime  10  475 

Gray  shale  5  480 

Lime   15  495 

Gray  shale  10  505 

Lime  218  723 

(Base  of  Silurian  not  defined.) 


LOG  No.  663. 

WELL  NEAR  CLIMAX. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Sand  and  soil  35  35 

Quicksand  2  37 

Lime  130  167 

Blue  slate  1 20  187 

Red  rock  8  19f. 

Blue  slate  14  209 

White  lime  15  224 

Blue  slate  116  340 

Gray  slate  10  450 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  130  580 

Lime— Ragland(?)   35  615 

SILURIAN  SYSTEM. 

Green  slate  25  640 

Hard  sandy  lime 5  645 

Gray  slate  5  650 

"Second  sand"  18  668 

Slate  ...                                   2  670 


ROWAN  COUNTY. 

LOG  No.  664. 

BUTTS  FARM. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Brown   sand   25 

White  lime   (?)   •     125 

White    shale    80 

White  lime   (?)   -     HO  34° 

White  shale  -     HO  450 

Brown    shale    (Sunbury?)     .. 

White  sand   (Berea?)   10  500 


498 


OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 


DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Brown    shale   

White    clay    

Lime — salt  water  

Red  rock  

White  shale  

Lime 

(Base  of  Devonian  not  denned.) 


190 
5 

100 
50 
55 

660 


690 
695 
795 
845 
900 
1560 


LOG  No.  665.  WELL  ON  TRIPLETT  CREEK. 

12  Miles  N.  E.  of  Morehead. 

Strata                                                          Thickness  Depth 
MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil 5  5 

B'.ue  shale  62  67 

Black  slate  (Sunbury?)  10  77 

Sha!e — gas  at  171  123  200 

Red  rock 6  206 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  (Devonian')  329  535 

Lime — "Ragland     sand" — oil     and     salt 

water    7  542 

RUSSELL  COUNTY. 

LOG  No.  666.  A.  W.  McCLOUD  FARM. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

ORDOVICIAN  SYSTEM. 

Lime    365  365 

Red  sand  4  369 

Lime    307  676 

Light  sand— black  oil  12  688 

Dark  lime  62  750 

Blue  slate  130  880 

Brown  slate — "Pencil  cave"  20  900 

B.ue   lime   30  930 

LOG  No.  667.  A.  W.  McCLOUD  FARM. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

ORDOVICIAN  SYSTEM. 

Dark  lime 655  655 

Light   sand   8  663 

Gray  lime  176  839 

White  lime 58  897 

"Pencil   cave"    2  899 

Gray  lime  92  1591 

Light  sand — salt  water  35  1626 

(Both  McCloud  wells  start  just  below  the  Black  Shale). 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS 


499 


LOG  No.  668. 

JOHN  JOHNSON  FARM. 

Strata  Thickness 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  20 

ORDOVICIAN  SYSTEM. 

Blue  lime— salt  water  at  100 670 

Sand   10 

Gray  lime  155 

"Pencil    cave"   3 

Dark  lime  642 

LOG  No.  669. 

F.  A.  BOLIN  FARM. 

Strata  Thickness 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Gray  lime  123 

Dark   sand    4 

Light  slate  131 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  (Devonian)  30 

Gray  lime— gas  at  970 682 

White   sand   10 

Brown   lime   130 

Base  of  Devonian  indefinite. 


Depth 


20 


690 
700 
855 
858 
1500 


Depth 

123 
127 
258 


970 

980 

1110 


LOG  No.  670. 

Strata 
DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil    

Black   shale   


G.  B.  WALTON  FARM. 


Thickness 


ORDOVICIAN  SYSTEM. 

Gray  lime  10 

Dark   sand   

Gray  lime  -     638 

White   sand   

Gray  lime  

"Pencil   cave"   .... 


.     113 
5 
Black  lime  65 


Depth 


60 
80 
718 
727 
840 
845 
900 


500  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES   OF  KENTUCKY 

TAYLOE  COUNTY. 

LOG  No.  671. 

CAMPBELLSVILLE  WELL. 

DAVIS  FARM. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil    12                          12 

Hard    lime    100                        112 

Soft  lime  63                       175 

Brown   lime    35                        210 

Gray  s'ate  Ill                        321 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  52                        373 

ORDOVICIAN  SYSTEM. 

Lime   327                        700 

Slate  and  lime  shells  300                     1000 

"Rubber"    rock*    7                      1007 

Slate   53                      1060 

Lime    130                      1190 

Slate   30                      1220 

Lime    30                      1250 

S:ate    20                     1270 

Lime    25                      1295 

Slate    , 5                     1300 

*Driller's  name. 


LOG  No.  672. 

A.  HUBBARD  FARM. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

C:ay   4  4 

Lime 166  170 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  (Devonian)  50  220 

ORDOVICIAN  SYSTEM. 

Lime    ..  980  1200 


LOG  No.  673. 

VAN  DYKE  FARM. 

Tallow  Creek. 
(Partial  record). 
Strata  Feet  Feet 

Devonian  shale   99  to  135 

Lime— oil  show  at  161  and  246 .     135          to  300 


RECORDS   OF  DRILLED  WELLS 


501 


LOG  No.  674.  ANDY  LAWLER  FARM. 

Pittman  Creek. 
2%  miles  S.  E.  of  Fin:ey. 

Strata  Thickness 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil    ..  =: 


Shale  

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Back  shale  (Devonian)  

ORDOVICIAN  SYSTEM. 

Lime    .. 


210 


51 


10 

Note: — Silurian    absent   under   Taylor  County. 


LOG  No.  675. 


UNION  COUNTY. 

WELL  AT  UN1ONTOWN. 

Thickness 


Strata 

RECENT. 

Soil    110 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Sandstone    10 

Coal    1 

Sandstone   26 

Coal— No.   11   6 

Sandstone   9 

Clay  and  slate  20 

Coal   2 

Gray    s  ate   48 

Lime    100 

Slate    43 

Coal— No.    9    8(?) 

Lime   6 

Slate   64 

Coal    10  ( ?) 

Slate    60 

Sand    40 

Slate  and  shale  40 

Lime    .. 

Sand — salt  water  12 

Slate    28 

Coal    6(?) 

Slate    19 

Lime    , 15 

Black   shale   

Lime   5 

Sand   30 

Sand — salt  water  ...          25 


Depth 

5 

215 

266 
276 


Depth 
110 

120 
121 
147 
153 
162 
182 
184 
232 
242 
285 
293 
299 
363 
373 
433 
473 
513 
521 
533 
561 
567 
586 
601 
626 
631 
661 


OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 


Slate 
Sand 

Slate 
Sand 


Sand   

Slate 

Sand  

Slate   

Lime  

Coal    

Slate  and  sand 


15 


M 

35 
33 

a 

33 
ft 

I 

2 

77 


701 

731 

766 

796 

831 

864 

906 

941 

10% 

1008 

1010 

1087 


LOG  No,  676. 

WELL  RECORD. 
Sol  Blue  Weil,  No.  1,  one  mile  east  of  Spring  Grove,  Union  Co.,  Ky. 


Strata 
RECENT. 

Loam    _ 


Thickness     Depth 


Quicksand 


PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Slate 


Quicksand 

Qoicksand 

Clay  

Slate  _ 


Coal  No.  9 


Coal 

Sand 


Sand 


Slate 
Coal 
Slate 
Sand 

Slate 
Sand 

Slate 


Slat* 


14 


H 


71 

5 

47 

63 

21 
51 
43 
74 


24 

28 
62 
88 
99 
ISO 
156 
187 
189 
205 
229 
244 
250 
265 
281 
312 
325 
330 

401 
406 
453 
516 
541 
562 
613 
656 
730 


Remarks. 


Water  37  ft. 


Water  all  through 


Gritty 


Hard  and  gritty 


Sharp 
Hard 

Show  of  oil  and  gas  in 
coal 


White  and  hard 


Hard 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS 


503 


Coal 
Slate 
Sand 


6 

107 
101 


736 
843 
944 


Slate    

99 

1043 

Coal   

2 

1045 

Lime    

6 

1051 

Slate    

11 

1062 

Lime    

17 

1079 

Sand    

73 

1152 

Slate    

73 

1225 

Sand  and  shells  

19 

1244 

Sand    

105 

1349 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Slate 

30 

1379 

Sand    

22 

1401 

Slate    

5 

1406 

Sand    

10 

1416 

Slate    

5 

1421 

Lime    

5 

1426 

Slate    

17 

1443 

Sand    

31 

1474 

Lime 

26 

1500 

Sand    

39 

1539 

Slate,  black 

Lime  

Slate  

Lime  

Slate 

Lime  

Slate  

Lime  

Slate  

Lime  

Pink  cave 


Lime    

Slate    

Lime   

Slate   

Sand  gray 

S  ate    .. 


1543 
1546 
1557 
1560 
1570 
1575 
1582 
1612 
1616 
1632 
1642 

1666 
1672 
1680 
1698 
1712 

1723 


(Water,  858  ft.  Nice 
show  of  oil  883  ft.  Hole 
full  of  salt  water  898ft.) 

Bell 


Gritty 

Water  1083  ft. 


Water  1315  ft. 


Broken 

Hard 

Hard  and  light 

Hard  and  close 
Hard  and  light  brown 
(Nice  show  of  oil  at 
2510  ft.  Rainbow  from 
this  sand  on  water  run- 
ning over  the  top  of 
8  inch  casing.) 


Hard  and  dark 
Hard  and  dark 
Hard  and  dark 

Hard  and  dark 

Hard  and  dark 
(Caved   very   bad;    had 
to  cement) 
Hard  and  dark 
Hard  and  dark 
Hard  and  dark 

(Sand    smelt   oily,   but 
was  broken  sand) 


504       OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

Sand  25  1748  (Nice  show  of  oil  from 

1725  ft.  to  1730  ft.  Sand 
hard  and  white) 

Slate    5          1753         Black  and  caves 

Lime    3          1756         Dark 

Lime    11          1767         White  and  hard 

Slate    34  1800 

Sand  24  1824  (Nice  show  of  oil  first 

screw  in  sand,  sand 
very  hard) 

Sand  shells  27          1851 

Lime    43          1894         Hard  and  gray 

Sand  5  1899  (Sand  very  hard,  nice 

show  of  oil) 

Slate    19          1918 

Red  rock  4          1922         Caves 

Slate    27          1949         Caves 

Sand,  top  1949  ft.  Nice  show  of  oil  from  1952  ft.  to  1962  ft.,  sand 
very  hard  and  sharp. 

Two  eight  inch  bailers  of  water  from  1967  ft.  to  1978  ft.  Hole  full 
of  water  at  1984  ft. 

Water  was  plugged  off  at  1967  ft.,  with  Robison  plug  and  lead,  shot 
loosen  plugs  and  hole  filled  up  with  water  after  shot. 

Well  was  drilled  by  the  Betty  B.  Oil  &  Gas  Co. 

(Base  of  Pottsville  indefinite.) 

WARREN  COUNTY. 

LOG  No.  677.  WELL  AT  BOWLING  GREEN. 

(From  drillings). 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 
White  oolite. 

Gray  lime at  18,  25  and  30 

Light  gray  oolite at  36 

Fine-grained  white  lime  at  42  and  46  to  70 

Light  gray  lime  at.  77,  90,  94  and  98 

White  lime  at  100 

Light  brown1  lime  at  106 

Light  gray  lime at  112,  117,  130,  135,  144  and  156  to  170 

Dark  gray  lime at  183 

Gray  lime  shale  at  189 

Dark  gray  lime at  195,  205  and  210  to  230 

Black  lime  at  235 

Dark  gray  lime  .....at  240 

Light  brown  lime at  253 

Gray  lime at  255  and  260 

Dark  lime at  265 

Brown  lime  at  270 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS  505 

Dark  gray  lime  at  278  and  284 

Brown  lime  at  287 

Gray  lime  at  288,  290,  294,  300,  305,  310  and  315 

Very  dark  lime  at  325  and  330 

Gray  lime — oil  at  363 at  340,  348,  350  and  358  to  380 

Gray  lime  shale  at  400  to  420 

Gray  lime  at  425  and  430 

Gray  lime  and  shale at  435,  440,  445  and  450 

Gray  and  white  limes at  455 

Gray  lime  and  shale  at  460  and  465 

Gray  and  white  lime  at  470 

Gray  .  ime  at  475 

Gray  lime  and  white  shale  at  485 

Dark  limy  shale at  490  to  501 

Gray  lime  and  limy  shales 506,  510  and  515 

Gray  limy  shale  at  520  to  530 

Dark  lime  and  limy  shales  at  535  to  665 

Black  slate  at  670  to  680 

Very  dark  limy  shale  at  685 

Brown  impure  lime  at  690 

Dark  impure  lime  at  695  and  700 

Gray  and  white  lime  at  705 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale at  708  to  760 

Dark  brown  sandy  lime at  765  and  770 

Mixed  back,  white  and  gray  limes  at  775 

Fine-grained  white  lime at  780 

SILURIAN  SYSTEM. 

Fine-grained  yellowish  lime  at  785  and  790 

Fine-grained  white  lime  at  795  to  875 

Gray  lime at  880  to  890 

Very  light  lime  at  895  and  900 

Gray  lime  at  91° 

Light  lime at  915  to  935 

Mottled  red  lime  at  940 

ORDOVICIAN  SYSTEM. 

Gray  lime  at  945  and  950 

Light  and  gray  limes  ....  at  955,  960,  965,  975  and  9 

Gray  lime  and  shale  at  98° 

Mottled  gray  and  white  lime  at  990 

Gray  lime  -' at  995  to  1010  and  1015 

Light  lime  at  102°  and  1023 

Gray  lime  and  sha'e at  1030  to  1095 

Light  and  gray  limes  at  1100  to  1185 

White  lime  at  119° 

Gray  limes at  1195  to  14 

Dark  limy  shale  at  1425 


506  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES   OF  KENTUCKY 

Gray  lime at  1430  to  1440 

Black  and  white  limes  at  1445 

Gray  lime at  1450  to  1460 

Brown  lime  at  1465 

Gray  lime at  1470  to  1595 

Light  lime at  1600  to  1605 

Dark  and  light  limes  at  1610  to  1660 

Light  dove-colored  lime  (top  of  Tyrone)  at  1660  to  1670 

Gray  and  light  limes  at  1685  to  1715 

Very  dark  lime  at  1720  to  1730 

Black  lime  at  1735 

Dark  brown  lime  at  1740  and  1745 

Black  lime  at  1750 

Dark  brown  lime  at  1755 

Gray  lime  at  1760  and  1765 

Very  dark  lime at  1770 

Gray  lime  at  1775 

Very  dark  lime _ at  1780 

LOG  No.  678.  STAHL  FARM.  "V 

West  of  Bowling  Green. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil    4                            4 

White  lime  211  215 

Brown  lime— black  sulphur  water  at  295....  85  300 

White  lime  150  450 

Brown  lime — "Blue  Lick"  water  at  560....  110  560 

Lime  40  600 

Blue  shale  5  605 

Hard  lime  10  615 

White  lime  85  700 

White  shale  , 1  701 

Brown  lime  149  850 

White  lime  60  910 

Blue   lime  35  945 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black   shale   110  1055 

Brown  lime  10  1065 

SILURIAN  SYSTEM. 

White  lime  5  1070 

Blue   lime   25  1095 

Cream-colored  lime— oil  10  1105 

Brown  lime  6  1111 

Creamrco'.ored  lime— oil  10  1121 

Broken  lime  19  1140 

Very  fine  sand  (lime?)  ...  3  1143 


LOG  No.  679. 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS 


LARMON  WELL  No.  1. 
Near  Alvaton 


507 


Strata                               Thickness  Depth  Remarks 
MIESISSiPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Clay    25  25 

Limestone 30  55 

Lime   shells   20  75 

Slate  5  80 

Soapstone    3  83 

Limestone     20  103 

Limestone     7  110 

Sandy  lime  5  115     Little  gas 

Limestone     45  160 

Lime    shells    40  200 

Sand    shells    15  215      Cased  6^4  casing 

Brown  lime    28  243      Gas,  oil  and  salt 

Sandy  lime    12  255     water  1  pt. 

Limestone     4  259      12  hrs. 

Shale    10  269 

Limestone     14  283 

Shale,    sandy   45  328 

Limestone  6  334 

Shale,    sandy   11  345     Mixed  with 

Limestone     11  356     hard  shells 

Slate  pencil  19  375     Not  black 

Lime,  shelly  23  398      Flinty  shells 

Slate  7  405 

Sand  shells  15  420     Mixed  with 

Slate  4  425     flinty  shells 

Limestone  45  470 

Lime   shells   5  475 

Slate  and  shells  ...  70  545     Mixed  with  lime 

Limestone     12  557 

Shale    6  563 

Lime   shell   1  564 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Shale    20  584 

Shale    29  612     Top  of  oil 

Limestone  4  616     Sand  oil  616 

Lime,  sandy  20  636 

SILURIAN  SYSTEM. 

Limestone     14  650 

Limestone,  sandy  ...  655      Should  be  2d  pay 

Limestone     5  660 


508       OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

Limestone,  sandy  5  665 

Soapstone  and   sand   14  679 

Limestone     4  683 

Limestone     5  688 

Limestone   4  692 

Shale  sandy  32  724      Well  finished 


LOG  No.  680. 

LUTHER  JACKSON  FARM. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

White  lime  35                          35 

Gray    lime    105                       140 

White  lime  120                        260 

Gray  lime  315                        575 

Blue   lime   90                       665 

Gray  lime  30                       695  . 

Blue  lime   315  1010 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black   shale   102  1112 

Gray  lime — oil  show  56  1168 

SILURIAN  SYSTEM. 

Light  brown  lime  10  1178 

Gray  lime  15  1193 

Brown   lime    8  1201 

Light  gray  lime — oil  show  7  1208 

White  lime  6  1214 

Light  gray  lime  25  1239 

White  lime  5  1244 

Light  gray  lime  28  1272 

Gray  lime   30  1302 

Brown    lime    33  1335 

Gray  lime  with  blue  shale  streaks 240  1575 

Red    rock    10  1585 

ORDOVICIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soft  broken  lime 305  1890 

Hard  blue  lime 98  1988 

Brown   sand   4  1992 

Hard  brown  lime  5  1997 

Dark  blue  shale  10  2007 

Blue  lime    ..  31  2038 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS  509 

LOG  No.  681. 

E.  HARRIS  WELL  No.  1. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil    5  5 

Lime    80  85 

Slate 85  170 

Lime    Ifl  180 

S'ate  32  212 

Brown   sand  8  220 

Slate 45  265 

Gray  sand  11  276 

Black  slate  4  280 

"Oil  sand"— oil  show  at  285 120  400 

Slate    65  465 

Gray  sand  55  520 

Black  slate  194  714 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Brown    slate    76  790 

"Cap"    rock    4  794 

White  lime  28  822 

"Oil    sand"   4  826 

SILURIAN  SYSTEM. 

Lime   50  876 

Lime  and   sha'e   76  952 

LOG  No.  682. 

BATES  FARM. 
(Partial  record). 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Oil   show  •-  at  230 

Oil   show  -  at  280 

White    lime    —  at  340 

White  lime  and  gas  ...  ...  at  383 

Gray  lime  —  at  405 

Green    shale — 'gas    at  446 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black    shale   -  at  492 

Cap  rock— gas  

Oil   sand   

Blue  lime   —  at  569 

"Salt    sand"    - 

2d  "salt  sand"  

Gray  lime  ;"   :>s!l 

"3d   sand"  -  at  594 

SILURIAN  SYSTEM. 

Bottom    at  64° 


510  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

LOG  No.  683. 

GARRISON  FARM. 
East  of  Bowling  Green1. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil    27  27 

Lime    - 105  132 

"Gas  sand"  5  137 

Ljime    63  200 

"Gas  sand"  10  210 

Lime    135  345 

Green   slate    37  382 

Broken  lime  8  390 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black   shale   60  450 

Brown   lime    4  454 

White  lime  8  462 

Brown  lime — gas   28  490 

SILURIAN  SYSTEM. 

White    lime    8  498 

Brown   lime   12  510 

Gray    lime    15  525 

Brown  lime— oil  12  537 

Gray  lime  45  582 

Brown   lime   8  590 

Gray  lime  10  600 


LOG  No.  684. 

B.  F.  AMOS  FARM. 

Near  Oakland. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Red    clay    14  14 

Lime    156  170 

Sand    25  195 

Lime  76  271 

Slate 6  277 

Lime 233  510 

Slate    12  522 

Lime    118  640 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Brown    shale   82  722 

Lime   102  824 

Sand— gas  24  848 

Lime    177  1025 

Red  rock  ...  44  1069 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS  611 

ORDOVICIAN  SYSTEM. 


273  1342 

Slate   ............................................................  116  1458 

Lime    .............................................................  19  1477 

Slate    ..................................................................  6  1483 

Lime    ..................................................................  67  1550 

Trenton*    ............................................................  59  1609 

*Driller's  distinction. 


LOG  No.  685. 

THE  ROBERT  KURD  WELL. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 
MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil   6  6 

Broken  stone  10  16 

Yellow  limestone  37  63 

White    limestone    42  95 

White    limestone    261  356 

Brown   limestone   50  406 

White  limestone  24  430 

Blue   limestone   50  480 

Blue  limestone  fossils  180  660 

B  ue   shale   52  712 

Blue  limestone  fossils  33  745 

White  limestone  6  751 

Dark   shells    66  817 

Lighter  shells  68  875 

Gray  limestone  71  946 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  185  1101 

Grey  limestone  10  1141 

White  limestone  5  1146 

Gray  limestone 22  1168 

Dark  limestone  15  1183 

Gray  limestone  20  1203 

Darker  gray  limestone  ~  35  1238 

Gritty  limestone  30  1268 

Darker  limestone  15  1283 

White  limestone  5  1288 

Broken  limestone  46  1334 

Showed  oil  at  1163 

Showed  oil  at  1183 

Showed  oil  at  1185 


512  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

LOG  No.  686.  BUNCH  WELL— No.  1. 

Elevation  580  ft. 

Strata                                                               Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil  10                          10 

Gray  limestone  528                        338 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale 60                       59S 

Blue  limestone  6                       604 

Lime  sand  10                       614 

LOG  No.  687.  HUNT  WELL. 

Elevation  637  ft. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil  12                          12 

White  limestone  521                       533 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale 64                       597 

Blue   limestone 5                       602 

Lime  sand  8                       610 

Dark  limestone 126                       736 

LOG  No.  688.  BATES  WELL. 

Elevation  608  ft. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

White  limestone  25                         25 

Gray  limestone 423                        448 

Green  shale  47                       495 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  60                       555 

Blue  limestone  5                       560 

Lime  sacd 10                        570 

Gray  limestone  35                        605 

Blue  clay  5                       610 

Gray  limestone  30                       640 

LOG  No.  689. 

A.  M.  KIRBY  WELL. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 
MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Blue  limestone  6                           6 

Flint    24                          30 

Gray  limestone 15                          45 

Blue  limestone 63                        108 

Yellow  shale  ....  8                       116 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS  513 

Blue    limestone    4  120 

Gray  limestone  30  150 

Blue  limestone  25  175 

Gray  limestone 49  224 

Brown  limestone  41  265 

Lighter  limestone 20  285 

White  limestone  35  320 

Light  gray  limestone  15  335 

White  limestone 10  345 

Blue  limestone  35  400 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black   shale   40  440 

Blue  lime  63  503 

Lime  sand  12  515 

Blue  limestone  10  525 

Lime  sand  15  540 

Blue  limestone  10  550 

Lime  sand  20  570 

Blue  limestone  15  580 

Gas  well. 


LOG  No.  690. 

MOODY  WELL. 
Elevation  518  ft. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Limestone  366 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black   shale   50  416 

Blue  limestone  8  424 

Lime  sand  7  431 

Brown  limestone  15  446 

Lime  sand  ...  20  466 


LOG  No.  691. 

SANSON  WELL. 
Elevation  529  ft. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

White  limestone  -     363 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  52 

Blue  limestone   423 

Thickness  of  sands  not  given. 

Oil   &  Gas— 17 


514  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

LOG  No.  692.         EWING  WILLOWBY  WELL— No.  2. 

Elevation  576  ft. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Limestone   329 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  51  380 

Bottom  of  well 414 

LOG  No.  693.  JEFF  WILLOWBY  WELL. 

Elevation  520  ft. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Limestone  251 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  21  272 

Blue  lime  10  282 

Thickness  of  sands  not  'given. 

LOG  No.  694.  EDWIN  WILLOWBY  WELL. 

Elevation  610  ft. 
Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Limestone  360 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  63  413 

Blue  limestone  81  421 

SILURIAN  SYSTEM. 

Brown   limestone    14  435 

Lime  sand  17  452 

Limestone  132  584 

Lime  sand  29  613 

LOG  No.  695.  MANSFIELD  WILLOWBY  WELL. 

Elevation  520  ft. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Limestone 205                       205 

Green  shale   35                       240 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  55                       295 

Lime  sand  15                       310 

Hard  blue  limestone  40                       350 

SILURIAN  SYSTEM. 

Slate   20                       370 

Limestone   30                        400 

Slate   ...  2                       402 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS  515 

LOG  No.  696.  A.  T.  DIGGINS  WELL. 

Elevation  518  ft. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Limestone  380 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  50  430 

Lime  sand  3  433 

Well  not  completed. 

LOG  No.  697.  DUNCAN  WELL. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Limestone    850  850 

Brown  sha'e  40  890 

Black  shale  140  1030 

White  limestone  50  1080 

Grey  limestone 5  1085 

White  limestone  15  1400 

Lime  sand  8  1108 

White  limestone  10  1118 

Dark  limestone  13  1131 

Lime  sand  14  1145 

Blue  limestone  11  1156 

Red  rock  5  1161 

Brown  limestone  24  1185 

(Base  of  Mississippian  indefinite.) 

LOG  No.  698.  MEEKS  WELL— No.  1. 

Elevation  580  ft. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Limestone   359  309 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  50  409 

Blue   limestone   11  420 

Lime  sand  9  429 

LOG  No.  699.  MEEKS  WELL— No.  2. 

Elevation  589  ft. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Limestone  -    377 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  51 

Blue  limestone  13  441 

Lime  sand  8  449 


516  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

LOG  No.  700. 

MEEKS  WELL— No.  3. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Limestone 300 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  41  351 

Blue  limestone 15  366 

Lime  sand  29  395 

LOG  No.  701. 

CHANDLER  WELL. 

Elevation  436  ft. 
Strata  Thickness  Depth 

(Partial  record). 
MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Limestone    420  420 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  , 60  480 

LOG  No.  702. 

PHINNEY  WELL. 
Elevation  517  ft. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Limestone 152 

Green  shale 54  206 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale 64  270 

Blue  limestone  7  277 

Lime  sand 40  317 

Blue  mud  3  320 

WAYNE  COUNTY. 

LOG  No.  703. 

J.  A.  BROWN  FARM. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Soil  35  35 

White  lime  165  200 

Hard  black  sand— gas  at  335 138  338 

Soft  black  slate  2  340 

White  sand — gas  2  342 

Black  lime 8  350 

White  lime — gas  50  400 

Black  slate  75  475 

White  lime  ...,  10  485 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS  517 

Black  slate  5  49o 

White   sand    12  502 

White  lime  48  550 

Blue  slate  30  530 

"Beaver"  sand — oil  8  588 

Blue  slate  590 


LOG  No.  704. 

DISHMAN  WELL. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

White  lime  170                        170 

White  sand  100                       270 

Lime   310                        580 

Sand    ("Beaver")    30                        610 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black    shale   35                        645 

Slate   and    shells    35                       680 

SILURIAN  SYSTEM. 

Lime   120                       800 

Slate  and  red  rock  20                       820 

Soft  slaty  lime  448  1268 

Slate  and  shells  28  1296 

Black  "pencil  cave"  4  1300 

Slate  and  shells 30  1320 

White  "cave"  5  1325 

(Base  of  Silurian  not  denned.) 

LOG  No.  705. 

H.  McBEATH  FARM. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Lime  and  shales  764                       764 

"Beaver"  sand  8                       772 

Lime    50                        822 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black    shale    35  857 

Lime  803  1660 

White  slate  (top  of  Tyrone)  3  1663 

Dark  brown  lime  277  1940 

Lime  shells  and  slate  260  2200 

Dark  brown  lime  30  2230 

Dark  and  light  limes  170  2400 

F.int  shells  30  2430 

White  salt  sand  (Calciferous?)  5  2435 

(Base  of  Devonian  not  denned.) 


518       OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

LOG  No.  706. 

J.  W.  BARNES  FARM. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Lime   254  254 

Gray  slate  140  394 

Gray  and  white  lime  and  slate  46  440 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black   shale    40  480 

Blue    lime 100  580 

"Pepper  and  salt"  lime  300  880 

Brown    lime    200  1080 

Blue  slate  10  1090 

Dark  lime  200  1290 

Brown  flint  (lime?)    (top  of  Tyrone) 60  1350 

Blue  lime 540  1890 

White  sand— oil  show  25  1915 

Brown-  flinty  lime  15  1930 

Light  brown  sand  5  1935 

White  lime  10  1945 

Lime   10  1955 

White  salt  sand  (Calciferous?)  26  1981 

(Top  of  Silurian  indefinite  in  blue  lime  100  feet.) 

LOG  No.  707. 

CYRUS  BROWN  FARM. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

White  lime  175  175 

Dark  lime— gas  at  205  69  244 

White  lime  55  299 

Black  lime — gas  at  305 30  329 

Dark  lime  40  369 

White  lime  136  505 

Dark  slate  25  530 

Hard   shell    10  540 

"Beaver  sand"  13  553 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Dark  shale  (Devonian)  40  593 

Dark  sand  15  608 

SILURIAN  SYSTEM. 

Dark  lime  477  1085 

Brown  lime  210  1295 

Dark  lime  45  1340 

Dark  flint  5  1345 

Dark  lime  152  1497 

(Top  of  Ordovician  not   defined,  in  477.) 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS  519 

LOG  No.  708. 

JAMES  RUMSEY  FARM. 

Gas  well. 

(Partial  record). 

Strata  Feet 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

"Blue  Lick"  water  at  165 

Heavy  gas  flow  at  225 

Light  gas  flow  at  310 

"Stray"    sand   ZIZZIIZI  at  388 

Slate    -  at  423 

"Beaver"  sand  at  430 

Blue  shale  and  shell at  463 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale   (Devonian)  at  466 

WEBSTER  COUNTY. 

LOG  No.  709. 

7  miles  N.  of  Dixon  at  Pilden. 

Lessor,  W.  A.  Duncan.     Lessee,  Sarber  &  Dearolph. 
Started  October  17,  1910.     Completed  April,  1911. 

Total  Depth,  1920— Authority,  C.  E.  Dearolph. 

Strata                                                                     Top  Depth 

FENNSYLVANIAN   SYSTEM. 

Conductor  (top  soil),  etc 0  11 

Hard  pan,  water,  etc 11  50 

Slate   50  165 

Coal    165  167 

Slate   165  186 

Coal    185  187 

Slate   187  300 

Sand    300  340 

Slate   340  345 

Ccal    345  352 

Shale   353  440 

Sard,    sharp   440  460 

Sha'e    460  617 

Coal    617  622 

Shale   622  695 

Sand  and  fresh  water  695  750 

Shale    750  840 

Coal    840  844 

Shale   844  940 

Sand,    sharp    (light   oil    showing   at   945, 

water  at  950)  940  958 

Lime,  shells  and  shale  958  1095 

Sand,  very  sharp  (fresh  water  at  1115)....  1095  1322 


520       OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Lime  and  slate  1322  1372 

Sand  rock  (salt  water  plenty)  1372  1410 

Slate  and  shells  (1480  bad  cave-in)  1410  1500 

B:ock  slate  1500  1514 

Stray  lime  1514  1519 

Slate  and  shells  1519  1920 

Sand  at  1920  filled  with  salt  water. 

LOG  No.  710. 

WELL   SOUTH   OF   SEBREE. 

(Partial  record). 
Strata  Top  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN   SYSTEM. 

Dark  shale  75  to          315 

Gray  sand  315  to          550 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Gray  limestone   550  to          695 

Gray  limestone   960  to        1016 

Gray  limestone   1060  to        1070 

Sand    1110  to         1210 

Dark  limestone — oil  show  at        1715 

Dove-colored  limestone  at        1934 

Gray  limestone  1934  to        1940 

Shaly   limestone   1940  to         1946 

Dark  limestone  1946  to         2081 

Dark   shale   2081  to         2093 

Gray  limestone  2093  to        2107 

Very  dark  limestone  2107  to        2226 

Dark  sandy  limestone  2226  to         2232 

Gray  limestone   2232  to         2260 

Dark  limestone  2260  to         2275 

White  limestone  3058  to         3064 

Poor  record;    base   of   Mississippian,   top    of    Devonian,     top    of 

Silurian,  and  top  of  Ordovician  not  defined. 

LOG  No.  711. 

WELL  NEAR  TILDEN. 

(Partial  record). 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN   SYSTEM. 

Soil    28  28 

Sandstone     25  53 

Blue  sha'e  87  140 

Sand  and  slate  16  156 

Coal    6  162 

Fire-clay   5  167 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS  621 

Sandstone    13  jgQ 

Slate   9  igg 

Sand — oil  show  13  202 

Sand  and  s'.ate 5  207 

Coal   1  208 

Sand   ...             46  254 

Slate  and  sand  47  301 

Black  slate  3  304 

Coal   6  310 

Fire-clay  3  313 

Sand                           7  320 

Sand    .. 10  330 

Slate  and  shale  29  359 

Coal    2  361 

Sand   ...                                                45  406 

Sand  and  slate  5  411 

Slate  65  476 

Black  s'.ate  10  486 

Sand   10  496 

Shale    .- 40  636 

Sand    35  571 

Shale 40  611 

Sand — oil  show  55  666 

Sand  and  slate  25  691 

White  sand— salt  water 60  751 

Sand  and  slate  20  771 

Sand    10  781 

Slate  48  829 

Coal 5  834 

Fire  clay  4  838 

White  sand  35  873 

Sand  and  shale  35  908 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Lime  and  sand 12  920 

Slate  31  951 

Sand   30  981 

Sand  and  slate  75  1056 

White    sand   276  1332 

Black  sand  10  1342 

Sandy  shale  20  1362 

Lime  and  sand  67  1429 

At  1600  reported  strong  oil  show  in  sand.  Well  spoiled  by  ream- 
ing. A  very  poor  record. 


522  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

LOG  No.  712.  WELL  AT   SEBREE. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN   SYSTEM. 

Clay  and  sand  52  52 

Sand    6  58 

Shale   66  124 

Sand    - 58  182 

Slate   33  215 

Coal   1  216 

Fire  clay  5  221 

Lime  8  229 

Sandy  sha'.e  27  256 

Slate  6  262 

Coal    3  265 

Shale   40  305 

Sand    „ 29  334 

Sandy  sha'.e  75  409 

Shale    15  424 

Sand    15  439 

Shale    20  459 

Sandy  shale  5  464 

Black   shale   28  492 

Lime   2  494 

Coal 3  495 

Shale   24  519 

Sand 6  525 

Shale    2  527 

Sand — oil,  gas  and  salt  water 62  589 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Shale   3  592 

McCREARY  COUNTY. 

LOG  No.  713.  WELL  AT  PINE  KNOT. 

(From  drillings). 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN   SYSTEM. 

Sand    55  55 

Coal    V2 

Sand    28  83 

Slate  - 10  93 

Sand    112  205 

Slate  10  215 

Sand    95  310 

Slate  10  320 

Slate  and  sand  10  330 

Sand    5  335 

Slate  ...  5  340 


RECORDS  OP  DRILLED  WELLS  523 

Sand    5  345 

Slate   25  370 

Sand    50  420 

Slate    20  440 

Sand   61  501 

Coal   3^  504 

S  ate   56  560 

Slate  and  sand  10  570 

Sand    10  580 

S!ate    32  612 

Sand    23  635 

Slate   7  642 

Sand    13  655 

Slate    20  675 

Sand   10  685 

Slate   25  710 

Sand  and  slate  12  722 

Slate   19  741 

Coal    6  747 

S  ate  and  sand  13  760 

Slate    7  767 

Sand    8  775 

S  ate  and  sand  10  785 

Sand    15  800 

Black  slate — base  of  Pottsville  7  807 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Red    sand    11  818 

Dark    slate   3  821 

Sand    6 

Dark  lime  20 

Brown,  limy  shale  

Dark  blue  slate  

Reddish  lime  4 

Light  brown  iimy  shale  10 

Dark  b  ue  slate  4 

Light  brown  limy  shale  

Gray  limy  shale  and  blue  slate  15 

Dark  lime  

Light  oolitic  lime  20 

Dove-colored  lime  

Dark  lime  and  sha'e  

Light   lime    20 

Dark  lime  and  shale  ... 

mrk  dove-colored  lime  .... 

White  and  brown  limes  and  black  slate  ....  20  1075 

Light  brown  lime  

Gray   sha'e  

Brown   lime   20  1105 


524       OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

Dove-co:ored  and  white  limes  190  1295 

Light  brown  lime  5  1300 

Light  green,  sandy  lime  5  1305 

Light  brown,  sandy  lime — oil  show  15  1320 

Dark  lime  and  slate  10  1330 

Gray  lime  20  1350 

Dark  limy  sand  10  1360 

Brown  impure  lime  10  1370 

Dark  limy  slate  10  1380 

Very  dark  lime  30  1410 

Dark  limy   slate  5  1415 

Dark  lime  5  1420 

Dark  slate  8  1428 

White  and  gray  lime  12  1440 

Light   lime    30  1470 

Gray  and  white  limes  20  1490 

Dark  and  white  sands  5  1495 

Gray  and  white  sands  and  sandy  limes....  65  1560 

Soft  shale  5  1555 

Gray  sandy  lime  5  1570 

Dark  limy  shale  30  1600 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale                                    15  1615 

Dark  brown  shale                         15  1630 

Black  sha'e                (Devonian) 5  1635 

Dark  brown  shale                          5  1640 

Black  shale                                    5  1645 

SILURIAN  SYSTEM. 

Dark  green  shale  30  1675 

Greenish  sha'e  with  lime  and  red  shale 

streaks   45  1720 

Red  iron  ore  (Clinton?)  at  1720. 

Iron  ore,  dark  shale  and  lime  15  1735 

Dark  limy  sha'e  7  1742 

Dark  lime  and  shales  43  1785 

ORBOVICIAN  SYSTEM 

Dark  lime  55  1840 

Dark  gray  and  reddish  limes  40  1880 

Dark  and  light  limes  and  dark  s'ate  35  1915 

Dark  reddish  lime  25  1940 

Dark  gray  lime  35  1975 

Dark  gray  and  white  lime  305  2280 

Dark   s-ate    10  2290 

Dark  gray  and  white  limes  102  2392 

Blue  and  white  limes  and  gray  shale 18  2410 

Light  gray  shale  12  2422 

Gray  lime 30  2452 

Grayish  brown  and  white  limes  ...  59  2511 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS 


625 


LOG  No.  714. 


WELL  AT  STEARNS. 


Strata                                                         Thickness  Depth 
PENNSYLVANIAN   SYSTEM. 

Shale  335  335 

White  sandstone  30  365 

Shale   25  390 

White    sandstone   10  400 

Coal   1%  401 

Shale 38  440 

Sandstone   70  510 

Biue  and  gray  slate  15  525 

White   sandstone   10  535 

Slate   20  555 

White   sandstone   10  565 

Slate   5  570 

White  sandstone  20  590 

Slate  40  630 

Coal   3%  634 

Sha:e    11  645 

Slate    12  657 

Red  iorn  ore   (?)   13  670 

White  sand  11  681 

WHITLEY  COUNTY. 

LOG  No.  715.  J.  P.  SHARP  FARM. 

Rockhold  Station. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN   SYSTEM. 

Soil    14  14 

Black   shale   36  50 

White  lime  5  55 

Coal   1%  56 

Blue  slate  88%  145 

White  sand  10  155 

Black  slate  30  185 

White  sand  20  205 

B  ack  slate  > HO  315 

Gray  sand  190  505 

Black  slate  40 

White  sand  165  710 

Black  slate  30 

White  sand— oil  show  230  970 

B'ack  slate  35  1005 

Sand   26  1031 

Coal    2  1033 

Black  slate  

White  sand  '. ...... 

Black  shale— base  of  Pottsville  15  1057 


526                 OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OP  KENTUCKY 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

White  lime  5  1062 

Black    shale    4  1066 

White  sand  25  1091 

White  shale  60  1151 

White  lime  54  1205 

White  sha'e  50  1255 

White  lime  30  1285 

White  shale  5  1290 

White  lime  265  1555 

Brown   sand  35  1590 

Blue   sand  27  1617 

Blue  shale  188  1805 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Brown  shale  ^j                               120  1925 

White  shale    I   (Devonian)        15  1940 

Brown  shale  J 5  1945 

SILURIAN  SYSTEM. 

White  shale  60  2005 

Red    shale 5  2010 

White  shaie 35  2045 

Red  shale  15  2060 

White  shale  5  2065 

White  lime  70  2135 

ORDOVICIAN  SYSTEM. 

Shale    70  2205 

White    lime    ..  25  2230 


LOG  No.  716. 

WATER  CO.  WELL. 
Williamsburg. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN   SYSTEM. 

Drift    28                          28 

Gravel    3                         31 

Slate   14                          45 

Sand— oil  at  47  24                          69 

Slate  11                         80 

Sand— oil  at  87 10                          90 

Slate    30  120 

Sand   8  128 

(All  in  Pottsville). 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS 


527 


LOG  No.  717. 


Strata 


PERKINS  WELL. 
Wi  liamsburg. 


Thickness 


PENNSYLVANIAN   SYSTEM. 

Clay   20 

Black  sand  10 

Blue  slate  60 

Sand— oil  at  100  10 

Slate    50 

White  sand  28 

Coal    2 

White   sand    60 

Slate    5 

Whit  sand— oil  at  360 120 

Slate   5 

Coal    5 

(All  in  Pottsville). 


Depth 
20 


100 
150 
178 
180 
240 
245 
365 
370 
375 


LOG  No.  718. 

NELSON  WELL  No.  2. 

Wniamsburg. 

Strata                                                          Thickness  Depth 

1  ENNSYLVANIAN   SYSTEM. 

Drift    28  28 

Slate    102  130 

Sand    35  160 

Slate   10  175 

White  sand  75  250 

Slate   5  255 

White  sand  115  370 

Coal    5 

Slate   5  380 

White    sand    90  470 

Slate   5  475 

White    sand    98  573 

Sate   7  580 

White  sand— oil  at  645  68  648 

Coal    2  650 

Slate  and  shells  115  765 

Slate   1  766 

White  sand — oil  show  at  770  and  805,  salt 

water  at  838  74  840 

Sand    8« 

Slate   871 

(All  in  Pottsville). 


528       OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

LOG  No.  719. 

ELECTRIC  LIGHT  PLANT  WELL. 

Williamsburg. 
(Partial  record). 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN   SYSTEM. 

White  sand— oil  at   385 50  425 

Slate  5  430 

White  sand  100  530 

Slate    5  535 

White  sand  35  570 

Slate  5  575 

White  sand — oil  and  gas  at  605 85  660 

Slate  and  shells  75  735 

White  sand — oil  and  gas  at  745 20  755 

Brown  shale  11  766 

White  sand   (base  of  Pottsville)  45  811 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Blue  slate  10  821 

Pink  slate — Mauch  Chunk 5  826 

LOG  No.  720. 

SUTTON  FARM. 
1  mile  S.  W.  of  Williamsburg. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

Soil    5                           5 

Sand  and  s'.ate 140  145 

Shale  and  shells  110  255 

Black  slate  147  402 

Sand   185  587 

Slate   15  602 

Sand    15  617 

Slate    .....  80  697 

White   sand— gas  at  784 87  784 

Black  shale  and  slate  19  803 

Sand — oil  at  957  172  975 

(All  in  Pottsville). 

LOG  No.  721. 

G.  W.  RAINS  No.  2. 
Near  Williamsburg. 

(Partial  record). 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN   SYSTEM. 

753 

Sand— oil  at  770,  790  and  811 82  835 

Shale    (with   coal)   45  880 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS  629 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 


...       23  903 


Sand    

Light  shale  15 

Lime    17  935 

Dark  shale  10  945 

Lime  10  955 

Pink  slate— Mauch  Chunk  45  1000 

Lime  20  1020 

Pink  slate — Mauch  Chunk  10  1030 

Lime   „ 15  1045 

Light   shale   5  1050 

Lime    25  1075 

Shale  and  lime  „ 95  1170 

Lime — gas  at  1369 211  1381 


LOG  No.  722. 

STEELY  FARM  No.  2. 
1  mile  N.  of  Williamsburg. 

Strata                                                          Thickness  Depth 
PENNSYLVANIAN   SYSTEM. 

Soil    10  10 

Sand   20  30 

Slate  105  135 

Sand    _..  150  285 

Lime   20  305 

Sand    75  380 

Lime  5  385 

Coal    5  390 

White  sand  202  592 

Shale    2  594 

B:ack  shale  30  624 

Coal    2  626 

Sand— salt  water  at  628  24  650 

S  ate  and  shells  100  750 

Sand   24  774 

Black  slate  (base  of  Pottsville  6  780 

JV1ISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM.  % 

Pink  rock— Mauch  Chunk  20  800 

Blue  slate  35  835 

Red  rock  10  845 

Lime   10  855 

JBlue  sjate  7  862 


530  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES   OF  KENTUCKY 

LOG  No.  723. 

STEELY  FARM  No.  4. 
1  mile  N.  of  Williamsburg. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

Drift    -~. 30  30 

B!ack  slate  19  49 

Sand   4  53 

Black  siate  82  135 

White  sand  170  305 

Lime   , 5  310 

White  sand  28  338 

Slate    2  340 

Sand    40  380 

Lime   (?)   5  385 

Coal    5  390 

White    sand 200  590 

Slate   5  595 

Black  shale  20  615 

Coal   2  617 

White  sand  33  650 

Black  shale  5  655 

Sand    15  670 

Slate 5  675 

Sand   15  690 

Slate  10  700 

Brown  shale  44  744 

Sand— oil  46  790 

Slate   (base  of  Pottsville)   5  795 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Pink  rock— Mauch  Chunk  5  800 

LOG  No.  724. 

STEELY  FARM  No.  5. 
1  mile  N.  of  Williamsburg. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 
I'ENNSYLVANIAN   SYSTEM. 

Drift    25  25 

Sand    5  30 

S  ate   15  45 

Sand    10  55 

Slate   25  80 

Black  slate  55  135 

White  sand 200  335 

Slate   5  340 

White  sand  40  380 

Lime   5  385 

Coal   ..  5  390 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS  631 

White  sand  202  592 

Slate  3  595 

San<l    55  650 


Coal 


652 


Sand — gas  at  660  8  660 

Lime   10  670 

Slate  15  685 

Shale    59  744 

White  sand — oil  at  750,  770  and  790 54  798 

Slate  6  804 

(All  in  Pottsville). 

LOG  No.  725.  STEELY  FARM  No.  8. 

1  mile  N.  of  Williamsburg. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN   SYSTEM. 

Drift  and  clay  20  20 

Slate   10  30 

Blue    shale    20  50 

Coal   2  52 

Slate   93  145 

Gray  sand  25  170 

White  sand  170  340 

Slate   10  350 

White    sand    55  405 

Coal    5  410 

White  sand— oil  at  550 140  550 

Sandstone     5  555 

Slate  5  560 

White  sand  43  603 

Sha'e   2  605 

Slate  5  610 

Sand    50  660 

Coal   2  662 

Sand   3  665 

Lime  10  675 

Slate   15  690 

Sand   15  705 

Slate  and  shells  20  725 

Shale  (base  of  Pottsville  ) 41  766 

MISS1SSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Sand  and  pink  rock — Mauch  Chunk 29  795 

Red  rock— Mauch  Chunk  30  825 

Black  sand  and  slate  21  846 

Red  rock— Mauch  Chunk  10  850 

Black  slate  4  860 

Lime   ...                                      10  870 


532  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

S:ate  and  shells  30  900 

Slate   10  910 

Red  rock  10  920 

Lime   1 5  925 

Slate  and  shells  60  985 

Slate 15  1000 

Lime  _ 35  1035 

Slate   5  1040 

Lime 285  1325 

Granite    (?)    25  1350 

Lime  20  1370 

Lime  and  flint  5  1375 

Flint    15  1390 

Lime  and  flint  30  1420 

Lime   35  1455 

Slate 10  1465 

Black   shale    25  1490 

Shale    20  1510 

Lime   20  1530 

Slate  40  1570 

Lime  10  1580 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Brown  shale   (Devonian)  120  1700 

White   slate   20  1720 

SILURIAN  SYSTEM. 

Gray  sand  5  1725 

White   slate 15  1740 

Blue  slate  30  1770 

Slate  and  shells  50  1820 

Slate    10  1830 

Sand    20  1850 

Slate 10  1860 

Sand 10  1870 

ORDOVICIAN  SYSTEM. 

Sand  and  lime  20  1890 

Lime    : 30  1920 

Lime  and  red  rock  15  1935 

Lime   ...                                                                .  235  2170 


LOG  No.  726. 

WELL  AT  MOUTH  OF  CLEAR  FORK. 

(Partial  record). 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN   SYSTEM. 

82S 

Shale   57  885 

Sand   (base  of  Pottsville  ...  75  960 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS  533 


MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 


Lime 


10  970 


Pink  rock— Mauch  Chunk  35  1005 

Lime   -              20  1025 

Sha:e    5  1030 

30  1060 


Lime 
Shale 
Lime 
Sha:e 
Lime 


Gas  well. 


30  1090 

15  1105 

55  1160 

370  1530 


WOLFE  COUNTY. 

LOG  No.  727. 

BREWER  FARM— No.  1. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN   SYSTEM. 

Clay    8  8 

Shale    47  55 

Sand    145  200 

Blue   shale    6  206 

Sand    44  250 

Blue  shale  15  265 

White  sand— oil  show  18  283 

ailSSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Blue  shale— Mauch  Chunk  117  400 

Lime— "Big   lime"    90  490 

B  ue  shale  500  990 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Brown    shale    176  1166 

Yellow   shale   18  1184 

"Cap  rock"  , 3  1187 

Sandy  lime — oil  show  3  1190 

Lime  18  1208 

SILURIAN  SYSTEM. 

Sandy  lime  37  1245 

Brown  sand   (?)   2  1247 

"Oil   sand"    19  1266 

Lime  and  sand  9  1275 

B  ack  sandy  lime  12  1287 

Light  sandy  lime  5  1292 


534  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

LOG  No.  728. 

BREWER  FARM— No.   2. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Clay   4  4 

Sand    40  44 

Sha'e    106  150 

Sand    140  290 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Blue   shale   15  305 

White  sand  115  445 

Lime— "Big    lime"    85  530 

White   slate   500  1030 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Brown  shale  185  1215 

White  slate  8  1223 

Brown  shale  5  1228 

"Cap  rock"  7  1235 

Sand   (?)— oil  show  6  1241 

Slate    1  1242 

B  ack  lime   31  1273 

SILURIAN  SYSTEM. 

Sand   (?)— oil  at  1273 5  1278 


LOG  No.  729. 

ISAAC  HOLLON  FARM. 

Holly  Creek. 
(Partial  record). 

PENNSYLVANIAN   SYSTEM. 

Strata  Feet  Feet 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Bottom  of  "Big  lime"  at  840 

Green   shale   840  850 

Slate. 
Red  rock. 

Brown  slate   1145  1150 

"Oil    sand"    1178  1188 

Brown  slate  1190  1360 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  slate  1360  1400 

Blue  s'ate  1400  1415 

Mixed   slate   1420  1435 

Cap  rock  1450 

Oil    sand    1450  1471 

White    sand    ..  ...  1471  1475 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS 


535 


LOG  No.  730. 

DAVE    WELLS    FARM— STILLWATER    DISTRICT. 
4  mi'es  S.  E.  of  Campton. 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

FENNSYLVANIAN   SYSTEM. 

Soil    3                           3 

Gray  sand  (water  at  55  ft.) 147  150 

Coal    5  155 

Gray  sand  290  445 

Black  shale  15  460 

Gray  sand  5  465 

White    sand    25  490 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Little  lime   20  510 

Blue    shale    16  526 

Big   iime    110                        636 

Green  shale  20  653 

Broken  lime  and  shale  (blue)  64  720 

Blue    shale    440  1160 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black   shale   192  1352 

Fire    clay    20  1372 

Brown    shale    12  1384 

Limestone   (oil  and  gas)  20  1414 

Brown  lime  20  1434 

Gray  lime  14S4 


LOG  No.  731. 


OLD  WELL  AT  CAMPTON. 


Thickness 


Strata 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 
Partly  unrecorded. 

White  sands  and  slates  .    420 

St.  Louis  L.  S 

B  ue  and  white  shales  498 


Depth 


420 

530 

1023 


DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Devonian  black  shales  .    191 

Blue  shale  —      3J  125° 

Oil   sand    16 

(No  mention  is  made  of  the  Berea  Grit,  although  it  must  have 
been  passed  through). 


536  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

LOG  No.  732.  J.  M.  TERRELL  WELL— No.  1. 

Just  north  of  Mary  on  Upper  Devil  Creek.     Ohio  Oil  Company,  opera- 
tor.    Drilled  1917.    Elevation  900  ft. 

(Partial  record.) 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil    9  9 

Sand   31  40 

Slate   6  46 

Coal    2  48 

Sand   66  114 

Coal    6  120 

Break    8  128 

Slate   43  171 

Sand   71  242 

Coal    9  251 

Slate  12  263 

Sand   28  291 

Sandstone   10  301 

Settling  sand  30  331 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Little  lime   20  351 

Slate  _ 14  365 

Big  lime   _ 144  509 

Waverly  and  black  shale  unrecorded. 

To  top  of  1st  sand 1251 

To  bottom  1268 

Oil   scum   1253          to          1254 

Some   oil   1254          to          1268 

Tot  A.    ck'pth   1828 

Bottom  white  lime  504 
Top  of  black  shale  1045 

Authorities,  George  Center  to  Big  Lime,   contractor  at  well 
to  bottom. 

Also  given  by  the  Ohio  Oil  Co, 

LOG  No.  733.  J.  M.  TAULBEE— No.  1. 

At  Mary,  Upper  Devil  Creek. 
Devil's  Creek  Oil  Co.,  Judge  Center,  Contractors.     Elevation  875. 

Strata  Dri.led  April  12,  1918. 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM.                              Thickness  Depth 

Soil    10  10 

Slate    13  23 

Sand    172  195 

Slate  85  280 

Sand   82  362 

Break   12  374 

Slate  ...                                                                   31  405 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS  637 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Lime   20  425 

Slate    10  435 

Big   lime   110  545 

Waverly  shale  550  1095 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black   shale   180  1275 

White   clay  25  1300 

"Sand"                    34  1334 

10-12  bbl.  we  1;  ruined  by  over  shooting. 


LOG  No.  734. 

I.  S.  MILLER— No.  1. 
Drilled  1917  by  Ohio  Oil  Co.    Elevation  1000  ft. 

(Partial  record.) 
Strata  Thickness  Depth 

Top  of  1st  sand  1282 

Bottom  1285 

Gas    show    1282         to         1285 

Total   depth   1308 

Given  by  Ohio  Oil  Co.,  from  its  files  September  4,  1918. 


LOG  No.  735. 

T.  C.  HOLLON— No.  1. 

Devil's  Creek  Oil  &  Gas  Company,  Operators.  Elevation  775.     Lantry 
Fike  Construction  Company,  drillers. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Surface   12                         12 

Sand    147                        159 

Blue   sha'e   30                       189 

Sand   175                       364 

Shale    17                       381 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Little   lime   18                       399 

Shale    13                       412 

St.  Louis  lime  118                       530 

Blue  shale  -  530                     1060 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Brown  shale  210 

White  shale  18 

B'ack   shale  15 

Top  of  sand  1303 


538  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

LOG  No.  736.        WELL  AT  CANNELTON,  INDIANA. 

Opposite  Hawesvi.le,  Hancock  County,  Ky. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Sand    47  47 

Shale    110  157 

White  sand  (base  of  Pottsville)   63  220 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Shale    9  229 

Lime   41  270 

Shale    5  275 

Hard  white  lime  55  330 

Shale   16  346 

Lime 6  352 

White  sand  5  357 

Shale    3  360 

Sand    13  373 

Shale   23  396 

Dark  lime  10  406 

Gray   shale   30  436 

White    lime    9  445 

Gray  shale   15  460 

White  sand — salt  water  at  480 51  511 

Shale   7  518 

White  lime— salt  water  at  733 218  736 

Lime — salt  water  at  774 204  940 

Dark  sandy  shale  87  1027 

Dark  brown  lime  81  1108 

Lime   1 672  1780 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

"Utica"  shale*   (probably  Devonian) 120  1900 

"Trenton"*    633  2533 

*Driller's  distinctions. 

LOG  No.  737. 

WELL  AT  TELL  CITY,  INDIANA. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN   SYSTEM. 

Soil    25  25 

Gray  shale   15  40 

Gray  sand  40  80 

Dark  sand    (base   of  Pottsville) 80  160 

MISSISSIPPIAN   SYSTEM. 

Gray  and  white  lime  (top  of  Chester) 30  190 

Dark  gray  shale  30  220 

"No    sample"    10  230 

Yellowish  brown  lime  5  235 

Grayish-green  shale  ...  45  280 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS  539 

Gray  lime  71  351 

Gray  sand  6  357 

Gray  lime  and  dark  gray  shale  43  400 

Gray  sand  15  415 

Gray,  red  and  brown  shales  116  531 

Gray  lime  33  564 

Dark  gray  shale  36  600 

Gray  sand  20  620 

Lime  and  black  shale  3  623 

Gray  lime  17  640 

Reddish-brown  shale  13  653 

Gray  sand  27  680 

Reddish-brown  shale  5  685 

Gray  sand  (Cypress?)  62  747 

"No    sample"    10  757 

Gray  lime   168  925 

Light   lime   245  1170 

LOG  No.  738. 

WELL  AT  CINCINNATI. 

(Partial  record). 

Strata  Feet 

ORDOVICIAN  SYSTEM. 

Dark  gray  crystalline  limestone at  280 

Gray  and  white  sand  (?)  at  290 

Crystalline  limestone  and  dark  shale at  305 

Gray  calcareous  shales  at  334,  344,  385,  450,  505,  575,  610  and  640 

Soft  white  limestone  at  675 

White  calcareous  shale  at  775 

Fine-grained  white  sandy  limestone  (Calciferous)....815  to  1330 

LOG  No.  739. 

WELL  AT  PORTSMOUTH.  OHIO. 

(E.  O.  Orton). 

Strata  Thickness  Depth 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Waverly    120 

Berea  (Sunbury)  shale  30 

Berea  grit  50 

Bedford   shale   50  250 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Devonian  shales  -     560 

SILURIAN  SYSTEM. 

Helderburg,   Niagaran   and   Clinton  lime- 
stones        675  1485 

ORDOVICIAN  SYSTEM. 

Medina    50  1535 

Hudson   ..  465  2000 


540                 OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

LOG  No.  740. 

WELL  AT  IRONTON,  OHIO. 

(E.  O.  Orton). 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 
PENNSYLVANIAN   SYSTEM. 

Coal  measures  : 282  282 

Conglomerate  and  Logan  group  300  582 

Blue    shale    30  612 

Sandstone 30  642 

Cuyahoga  shales 348  990 

Berea  (Sunbury)  shale  20               .       1010 

Berea  grit  47  1057 

Bedford  shale  and  sand  90  1147 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Devonian  shales  680  1827 

Corniferous    and     upper    Silurian    lime- 
stones      584  2411 

Upper    Silurian    and    Hudson    shale    and 

limestone    1031  3442 

(Top  of  Mississippian,  Silurian  and  Oriovician  indefinite.) 

LOG  No.  741. 

HUTCHISON  WELL. 
3  miles  S.  of  Kenova,  W.  Va. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 
PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM. 

Soil  and  quicksand  33  33 

White   slate   17  50 

Sand   27  77 

White   slate  22  99 

Coal   2  101 

White   slate   40  141 

Sand 40  181 

Black    slate    10  191 

Sand   117  308 

Black  slate  12  320 

Sand   20  340 

Black  slate  „ 51  391 

Coal   2  393 

Black  slate  15  408 

Lime   shell   10  418 

White  slate  25  443 

Sand   10  453 

White  slate 33  486 

Sand    '. 8  494 

White   slate   28  522 

Sand   12  534 


RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS  541 

Black  slate  20  554 

Sand   15  569 

Black   slate    48  QH 

Sand   12  629 

Coal    - 2  631 

Lime  shells  15  g4g 

Black  slate 28  674 

Sand   45  719 

Slate  and  shells  24  743 

Salt  sand — salt  water  77  320 

Coal    4  824 

Salt   sand — base  of  Pottsville  18  842 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Red  rock — Mauch  Chunk  4  345 

Lime    shells    10  856 

Sand  and  lime  shells  96  952 

Green  slate  6  958 

Sand    20  978 

Lime   shells   3  981 

Sand    25  1006 

Lime   32  1038 

Lime  and  sand — Big  Lime  125  1163 

Black  slate  10  1173 

Sand   74  1247 

Black  s'.ate  60  1307 

Sand   30  1337 

Black  slate 255  1592 

Black  shale   (Sunbury?)    25  1617 

Berea  grit  (?)  60  1677 

Blue  slate  300  1977 

Black  sand  15  1992 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  slate  192  2184 

Blue  slate  8  2192 

B^ack  sand  15  2207 

Black  slate  52  2259 

Blue  slate  5  2264 

LOG  No.  742. 

Report  of  Diamond  Drill  Prospecting  Work  Done  for  Rogers  Bros.  Coal 
Co.,  by  Sullivan  Machinery  Co.,  Chicago,  Illinois. 

Near  Williamson,  W.  Va. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 
PENNSYLVANIAN   SYSTEM. 

Gravel   and   boulder  10  10 

Gravel  sand  boulders  29  19 

Broken  ledge  30 

Sandstone  70  40 


542 


OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OP  KENTUCKY 


Broken  sandstone 

Sandstone 

Shale 

Coal 

Shale 

Sandstone 

Shale 

Sand  shale 

Shale 

Coal 

Sandstone 

Shale 

Coal 

Sandstone 

Shale 

Coal 

Shale 

Sand  shale 

Sandstone 

Sand   shale 

Sandstone 

Conglomerate    ss. 

Sandstone 

Sand   shale 

Sandstone 

Hard    sandstone 

Sandstone 

Shale 

Hard    sandstone 

Sandstone 

Hard    sandstone 

Conglomerate    ss. 

Hard    sandstone 

Conglomerate    ss. 

Sandy  shale 

Shale 

Sand   shale 

Sandstone 

Shale 

Coal 

Shale 

Sand   sha!e 

Shale 

Hard    sandstone 

Conglomerate    ss. 

Good  flow  of  gas  struck  at  918. 


100 

30 

148 

48 

177-6 

29-6 

178 

-6 

182 

4 

280 

98 

293 

13 

298 

5 

302 

4 

302-4 

-4 

367 

64-8 

371-6 

4-6 

372-2 

-8 

386 

13-10 

396-4 

10-4 

396-10 

-6 

405 

8-2 

423 

18 

425 

2 

454 

29 

464 

10 

474 

10 

480 

6 

492 

12 

571 

79 

592 

21 

601 

9 

602 

1 

622 

20 

651 

29 

661 

10 

677 

16 

705 

28 

716 

11 

723 

7 

759 

36 

765 

6 

768 

3 

769-3 

1-3 

769-11 

-8 

774 

4-1 

778 

4 

779 

1 

840 

61 

918 

78 

RECORDS  OF  DRILLED  WELLS  543 

LOG  No.  743 

WELL  AT  CENTRAL  CITY,  W.  VA. 

(I.  C.  White). 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN   SYSTEM. 

Soil    26  26 

Shale,  sand  and  lime  94  120 

Lime   7  127 

Slate  and  fire  clay  98  225 

Sand   25  250 

Slate   50  300 

Sand— gas   ...                    30  330 

Black  slate  10  340 

Gray  sand  60  400 

B!ack  slate  10  410 

Gray  sand  85  495 

White  and  blue  slate  25  520 

Sand  and  lime  20  540 

Slate   20  560 

Black  slate  175  735 

Gray  sand  25  760 

Black  slate  105  865 

Sand — gas  and  salt  water  30  895 

Black  sand  10  905 

Black  slate  (base  of  Pottsville)  30  935 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Lime   5  940 

Black  slate  30  970 

"Big  lime"  150  1120 

Slate   28  1148 

"Big  Injun"  sand— salt  water 177  1325 

Black  shale  and  slate  370  1695 

Lime  and  hard  sand  10  1705 

Brown  slate    (Sunbury)    25  1730 

"Berea"  sand — oil  and  gas  25  1755 

B'ack  slate  10  1765 

Hard  gray  sand  5  1770 

Lime  5 

Gray  sand  10  1785 

Lime   3  1788 

B  ack  sand  

Bastard  lime 4  1794 

Black  shale  20  1814 

Fine  black  sand  97 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black,  blue  and  white  shales .  574  2485 

Bastard  lime— stray  gas  sand  15  2500 


544  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OP  KENTUCKY 

SILURIAN  SYSTEM. 

Shale    250  2750 

Gray  sand  10  2760 

Limestone   ...  10  2770 


LOG  No.  744. 

TOOMEY  No.  1. 
Oneida,  Scott  County,  Tenn. 

Strata                                                            Thickness  Depth 

PENNSYLVANIAN   SYSTEM. 

Dark  sand  20  20 

White  sand 180  200 

Slate  and  thin  coal  30  230 

White  sand  80  310 

S'ate   40  350 

White  sand  70  420 

Slate  130  550 

White  sand  60  610 

MISSISSIPPIAN  SYSTEM. 

Red  slate  (Pennington)  140  750 

Gray  lime  195  945 

Sandy  lime— oil  20  965 

Gray  and  brown  limes — oil  at  970  331  1296 

Blue   shale   10  1306 

Gray  sandy  lime  71  1377 

Pinkish  crysta'.line  lime   19  1396 

Gray  lime  with  dark  oil  bearing  specks....  2  1398 

Hard  lime  _ 20  1418 

White  lime  12  1430 

Browa  lime  45  1475 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM. 

Black  shale  (Chattanooga)  65  1540 

Blue  slate  15  1555 

Blue  lime  with  layers  of  s'.ate  45  1600 

Blue  lime  .  100  1700 


Logs  745-749,  inclusive,  appear  on  pages  428-431 
Logs  750-752,  inclusive,  appear  on  pages  331-335. 
Total  number  of  logs  in  this  volume  is  752. 


CHAPTER  IX. 

PRECISE  LEVEL  NET  ADJUSTMENT  AND 
STANDARD  ELEVATIONS  IN  KENTUCKY.* 


Place 

Designation 
of 
bench   mark 

Standard 
elevation 

Meters     Feet 

Louisville,    Ky  

U.  S.  E.  B.  M. 
No.  10(=602B) 
U.  S.  E.  B.  M. 
603    
U,  S.  E.  B.  M. 
604M    I 

127.146 
126.777 
131.175 

417.145 
415.935 
430.363 

Louisville,    Ky  

Louisville,   Ky  

Louisville,    Ky. 

Louisville,    Ky 

Louisville,   Ky 

Louisville,    Ky 

Louisville,   Ky 

Louisville,   Ky 

Louisville,   Ky 

Louisville,   Ky 

Louisville,   Ky 

Near  Louisville,   Ky 

Near  Louisville,   Ky 

Near  Louisville,    Ky 

Near  Louisville,   Ky 

In   Kentucky,  near  Bridgeport,  Ind... 
In   Kentucky,  near  Bridgeport,  Ind... 

Near  Greenwood  Landing,  Ky 

Greenwood  Landing,  Ky 


P  B.  M.  617  ....!  126.839J  416.138 
P.  B.  M.  618  ....I  126.720)  415.748 
P.  B.  M.  619  ....(  125.736|  412.518 
P  B.  M.  620  ....)  120.728)  396.087 
B.  M.  621  ....)  126.641)  415.489 
P.  B.  M.  622  ..-I  123.2461  404.348 
P  B.  M.  623  ....[123.990 1  406.791 
P.  B.  M.  623AJ  130.269)  427.390 
P.  B.  M.  624  ....)  126.189)  414.004 
P.  B.  M.  625  ....)  125.582!  412.014 
P.  B.  M.  626  ....)  121.0601  397.178 
U.  S.  G.  S.  441 1  134.342)  440.753 

*  U.   S.  Coast  and  Geodetic  Survey,    Special  Publication  No.   18.    By   Bowie 
and  Avers.  1914. 

545 


In  Kentucky,  near  Stewarts  Landing,  Ind. 
Near  Valley  Station,  Ky. 
Near   Johnsontown,    Ky.... 

Near    Bethany,    Ky 

Near  Kosmosdale,  Ky.  ... 
Near  Kosmosdale,  Ky.  ... 
Near  Kosmosdale,  Ky.  ... 
Kosmosdrle,  Ky. 

Kosmosdale,   Ky 

Near  Kosmosdale,  Ky 

Near  West  Point,  Ky. 
West  Point,  Ky.  ... 


P.  B.  M.  604....)  130.941)  429.595 
Guard  Pier  ....|  135.464)  444.435 
P.  B.  M.  fi04A..|  121.469)  398.520 
P.  B.  M.  605  ....|  122.781)  402.824 
P.  M.  B.  606  ....[  124.211)  407.514 
P.  B.  M.  607  ....I  124.320)  407.872 
P  B.  M.  607A)  122.748)  402.716 
P.  B.  M.  608  ....)  126.778)  415.938 
P.  B.  M.  609  ....)  123.388)  404.814 
P  B.  M.  610  ....)  122.379)  401.504 
P.  B.  M.  611  ....[  126.377)  414.622 
P.  B.  M.  612  ....)  123.574)  405.425 
P.  B.  M.  613  ....[  124.723)  409.195 
P.  B.  M.  614  ....)  124.929)  409.872 
P.  B.  M.  614A)  129.971 1  426.412 
P.  B.  M.  615  ....)  123.451)  405.022 
P.  B.  M.  616  ...-!  126.361)  414.569 


Oil  &  Gas— 18 


546 


OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 


Place 

Designation 
of 
bench   mark 

Standard 
elevation 

Meters 

Feet 

West  Point,  Ky  
Near  West  Point,  Ky  
Wabash  Id.,  Ky.           

P.  B.  M.  627  .... 
P  B.  M.  628  .... 
P.  B.  M53,  bolt 
Cap    
P.  B.  M.  54,  bolt 
Cap    , 
P.  B.  M.  Ken- 
tucky     
P.  B.  M.  715  .... 
P.    B.    M.   715A 
P  B.  M.  716  .... 
P.  B.  M.  717  .... 
P.   B.    M.    717A 
P  B.  M.  718  .... 
P.   B.   M.  719.... 

130.283 
125.020 
105.092 
106.322 
113.299 
114.517 

105.925 
120.039 
120.208 
119.380 
118.391 
119.004 
117.553 
114.712 
114.642 
119.037 
127.973 
115.308 
115.957 
115.945 
113.934 
115.609 
121.209 
119.140 
115.602 
116.979 
115.718 
114.333 
113.833 
116.375 
114.650 
121.504 
113.241 
118.823 
120.972 
117.805 
112.479 
112.103 
112.764 

427.436 
410.171 
344.789 
348.825 
371.715 
375.711 

347.522 
393.829 
394.381 
391.665 
388.421 
390.432 
385.671 
376.350 
376.122 
390.539 
419.857 
378.307 
380.437 
380.397 
373.799 
379.295 
397.667 
390.878 
379.271 
383.788 
379.651 
375.108 
373.468 
381.807 
376.148 
398.634 
371.525 
389.838 
396.889 
386.500 
369.024 
367.791 
369.960 

In  Kentucky,  near  mouth  of  Wabash  
Blackburn,  Ky.,  opp.  Shawneetown,  111  

In  Kentucky,  opposite  Dear  Creek,  Ind... 
In  Kentucky,  opposite  Dear  Creek,  Ind... 
Near  Landis  Landing,  "Ky 

Near  Hawesville,  Ky 

Near  Hawesville,  Ky 

Near  Hawesville,  Ky  

Near  Hawesville,  Ky 

Hawesville,  Ky. 

P.  B.  M.  720  .- 
r*    B.    M.    720A 
U.  S.  G.  S.  422 
P.  B.  M.  721  .... 
P.  B.  M.  722  .... 
P.  B.  M.  723  .... 
P.  B.  M.  724  .... 
P.  B.  M.  725  .... 
P.  B.  M.  726  .... 
P.  B.  M.  727  .- 
P.  B.  M.  728  .... 
P    B.    M.    728A 
P.  B.  M.  729  .... 
P.  B.  M.  730  .... 
P.  B.  M.  731  .... 
P.  B.  M.  732  .... 
P.  B.  M.  733  .... 
P.   B.   M.    733A 
P.  B.  M.  734  .... 
P.  B.  M.  735 

Hawesville,  Ky  

Hawesville,  Ky. 

Near  Hawesville,  Ky  

Near  Hawesville,  Ky  

Near  Hawesville,  Ky  

Eeachams  Landing,   Ky  
In  Hancock  County,  Ky.,  above  Troy,  Ind 
In  Hancock  County,  Ky.,  above  Troy,  Ind 
In  Hancock  County,  Ky.,  below  Troy,  Ind 
In  Hancock  County,  Ky.,  below  Troy,  Ind 
In  Hancock  County,  Ky.,  below  Troy,  Ind 
Near  Lewisport,  Ky  
Near  Lewisport,  Ky  

Near  Lewisport,  Ky  

Near  Lewisport,  Ky  

Near  Lewisport,  Ky  

Lewisport,  Ky. 

Lewisport,  Ky. 

Near  Lewisport,  Ky 

Near  Lewisport,  Ky 

P.  B.  M.  736  .... 
P.  B.  M.  737  ..- 
P.  B.  M.  738  .... 
P.  B.  M.  739  .... 
P.   B.   M.   740.... 

Near  Lewisport,  Ky 

In  Kentucky,  opposite  Grand  View,  Ind.. 
In  Kentucky,  opposite  Grand  View,  Ind.. 
In  Kentucky,   near  Rockroort,  Ind  

ADJUSTMENT  AND  ELEVATIONS 


547 


Place 


Designation 

of 
bench  mark 


Standard 
elevation 


Meters  |   Feet 


In  Kentucky,  near  Rockport,  Ind. 
In  Kentucky,  near  Rockport,  Ind. 
In  Kentucky,  near  Rockport,  Ind. 

Iceland  Landing,  Ky 

Near  Mouth  of  Puppy  Creek,  Ky 

Puppy  Creek,  Ky 

Near  Owensboro,  Ky 

Near  Owensboro,  Ky 

Near  Owensboro,  Ky 

Near  Owensboro,  Ky 

Owensboro,  Ky 

Owensboro,  Ky 

Owensboro,  Ky 


P.  B.  M.  741  .... 
P.  B.  M.  742  .... 
P.  B.  M.  743  .... 
P  .B.  M.  744  .... 
P.  B.  M.  745  .... 
P.  B.  M.  746  .... 
P.  B.  M.  747  .... 


P.  B.  M.  749  ... 
P  B.  M.  750  ... 
P.  B.  M.  751  ... 


117.190 
117.114 
114.389 
113.298 
115.804 
113.330 
112.574 
113.079 


384.480 
384.233 
375.291 
371.713 
379.933 
371.818 
369.336 
370.994 


Owensboro,  Ky 

Near  Owensboro,  Ky 

Near  Owensboro,  Ky 

Near  Owensboro,  Ky 

Near  Little. Hurricane  Island,  Ky. 
Near  Little  Hurricane  Island,  Ky. 
Near  Little  Hurricane  Island,  Ky. 
Near  Little  Hurricane  Island,  Ky. 

Near  French  Island,  Ky 

Near  French  Island,  Ky 

Near  French  Island,  Ky 

Near  French  Island,  Ky 

Near  French  Island,  Ky 

Near  French  Island,  Ky 

Near  French  Island,  Ky 

Near  Carlinburg,  Ky 

Near  Scuffletown,  Ky 

Near  Scuffletown,  Ky 

Near  Scuffletown,  Ky 

Near  Scuffletown,  Ky 

Near  Mouth  of  Green  River,  Ky 

Near  Mouth  of  Green  River,  Ky 

Near  Mouth  of  Green  River,  Ky 

In  Kentucky,  near  Evansvllle,  Ind. 
In  Kentucky,  near  Evansvllle,  Ind. 
In  Kentucky,  near  Evansvllle,  Ind. 


P.  B.  M.  752  .... 
U.  S.  G.  S.  396 
High  Water 

1884    

Water  gauge.... 
P.  B.  M.  753  .... 
P.  B.  M.  754 


P.  B.  M. 
P  B.  M. 
P.  B.  M. 
P.  B.  M. 
P.  B.  M. 
P.  B.  M. 
P.  B.  M. 
P.  B.  M. 
P.  B.  M. 
P.  B.  M. 
P.  B.  M. 
P.  B.  M. 
P.  B.  M. 
P.  B.  M. 
P.  B.  M. 
P.  B.  M. 
P.  B.  M. 
P.  B.  M. 
P.  B.  M. 
P.  B.  M. 
P.  B.  M. 
P  B.  M. 
P.  B.  M. 


755  J 

756  _| 

757  ....( 

758  J 

759  ....) 

760  .... 

761  .... 
762.... 

763  .... 
764.... 
766  .... 

766  .... 

767  .... 


769  ....] 
771  ... 
773  ....[ 

777  ....j 

778  ....) 

779  ....I 

780  ....| 

781  ....) 

782  ....I 


107.957)  354.190 
120.582  j  395.609 
109.424]  359.003 
120.287]  394.642 

118.234]  387.906 
103.384)  339.187 
108.202]  354.992 
108.923]  357.357 
115.570]  379.165 
112.7191  369.813 
113.915 1  373.736 
114.573)  375.896 
110.678)  363.117 
109.1441  358.083 
113.657]  372.889 
113.431]  372,148 
113.811]  373.394 
113.392)  372.019 
112.039]  367.581 
108.314)  355.361 
108.624]  356.377 
107.373)  352.274 
108.010]  354.364 
113.292)  371.692 
109.386)  358.878 
109.802  j  360.241 
109.1611  358.138 
108.000)  354.331 
109.432|  359.028 
111.968|  367.349 
107.319|352.095 


548 


OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OP  KENTUCKY 


Place 


Designation 

of 
bench  mark 


Standard 
elevation 


Meters     Feet 


In  Kentucky,  near 
In  Kentucky,  near 
In  Kentucky,  near 
In  Kentucky,  near 
In  Kentucky,  near 
In  Kentucky,  near 
In  Kentucky,  near 
In  Kentucky,  near 
Evansville,  Ind.  ... 


Evansville,  Ind. 
Evansville,  Ind. 
Evansville,  Ind. 
Evansville,  Ind. 
Evansville,  Ind. 
Evansville,  Ind. 
Evansville,  Ind. 
Evansville,  Ind. 


Evansville,   Ind 

Dutch  Bend,  Ky 

Dutch  Bend,  Ky 

Near  Henderson,  Ky.  .. 
Near  Henderson,  Ky.  .. 
Near  Berry  Ferry,  Ky. 
Near  Berry  Ferry,  Ky. 
Near  Berry  Ferry,  Ky. 
Near  Berry  Ferry,  Ky. 
Near  Berry  Ferry,  Ky. 
Golconda,  111 


Golconda,  111 


Near  Berry  Ferry,  Ky.  .. 
Near  Berry  Ferry,  Ky.  .. 
Near  Pryors  Island,  Ky. 

Near  Bayou,  Ky 

Near  Bayou,  Ky 

Near  Bayou,  Ky 

Near  Bayou,  Ky 

Near  Bayou,  Ky 

Bayou,  Ky 

Near  Birdsville,  Ky 

Birdsville,  Ky 

Birdsville,  Ky 

Near  Birdsville,  Ky 

Near  Birdsville,  Ky 

Near  Smithland,  Ky 

Near  Smithland,  Ky.  ... 


P.  B.  M.  783  .... 
P  B.  M.  784  .... 
P.  B.  M.  785  .... 
P.  B.  M.  786  .... 
P  B.  M.  787  .... 
P.  B.  M.  788  .... 
P.  B.  M.  789  .... 
P.  B.  M.  790  -- 
High  water  .... 

marks    

U.  S.  G.  S.  394 
P.  B.  M.  791  ....[ 
P.  B.  M.  792  ....| 
P.  B.  M.  793  ....| 
P.  B.  M.  794  ....| 
P.  B.  M.  888....  | 
P.  B.  M.  889  .... 
P  B.  :M.  890  .... 
P.  B.  M.  891  .... 
P.  B.  M.  892  .... 
High  Water  .... 

1883  

High  Water  .... 

1884  

P.  B.  M.  893  -. 
P.  B.  M.  894  .... 
P.  B.  M.  895  .... 
P.  B.  M.  896  .... 
P.  B.  M.  897  .... 
P.  B.  M.  898  .... 
P.  B.  M.  899  .... 
P.  B.  M.  900  .... 
P  B.  M.  901  .... 
P.  B.  M.  902  .... 
P.  B.  M.  903  .... 
P.  B.  M.  903A) 
P.  B.  M.  904  ....[ 
P.  B.  M.  905  ....] 
P.  B.  M.  906  ....) 
P.  B.  M.  907  ....I 


111.573 
112.048 
112.502 
111.739 
109.326 
110.237 


366.053 
367.611 
369.101 
366.596 
358.681 
361.670 


111.714  366.515 


107.434 
114.834 
114.905 
120.154 
110.698 


352.474 
376.751 
376.983 
394.206 
363.181 


108.842 1  357.092 

107.048]  351.206 

106.888]  350.683 

98.220]  322.243 

97.524]  319.959 

98.497]  323.153 

101.779]  333.920 

96.240]  315.747 

I 
106.451]  349.249 

i 

106.899]  350.719 
97.695]  320.522 

101.262]  332.225 
97.821)  320.934 

100.887]  330.993 
99.678J  327.027 
96.865]  317.799 

102.065]  334.857 
97.109 1  318.597 
99.459]  326.308 

104.650)  343.339 

101.234]  332.133 

102.335)  335.743 
96.587]  316.886 
95.327)  312.753 
98.835)  324.261 
99.684!  327.047 


ADJUSTMENT  AND  ELEVATIONS 


549 


Place 

Designation 
of 

Standard 
elevation 

bench   mark 

Meters     Feet 

Near  Smithland,  Ky 

P  B    M    908 

97  76i    320  736 

Smithland,  Ky 

P   B   M   909 

98  965    324  689 

Smithland,  Ky. 

P    B    M    909A 

103  299    338  678 

Near  Smithland,  Ky. 

P   B    M    910 

97  159   318  763 

Near  Smithland,  Ky 

P   B    M    911 

99  514  i  326  488 

Near  Smithland,  Ky 

P    B    M    913 

95  992    314  934 

Near  Ledbetter,  Ky. 

P  B.  M    914 

95990'  314  928 

Near  Ledbetter,  Ky. 

P.  B.   M    915 

98  544  1  323  307 

Near  Ledbetter,  Ky. 

P.  B.  M.  916  .... 

100.144  j  328.555 

Near  Ledbetter    Ky 

P   B    M    917 

94  793  1  311  001 

Near  Paducah,  Ky  

P.  B.  M.  918  .... 

93.934  1  308.181 

Near  Paiucah,  Ky 

P.  B.  M    919 

99  352'  325957 

Near  Paducah,  Ky  

P.  B.  M.  920  .... 

98.819   324.208 

Near  Paducah,  Ky  

P  B.  M.  921  .... 

93.433!  306.538 

Near  Paducah,  Ky  

P.  B.  M.  922  .... 

98.750|  323.982 

Paducah,  Ky  

P.  B.  M.  923  ... 

99.530  1  326.542 

Paducah,  Ky  

P.   B.   M.   923A 

91.5331  300.303 

Paducah,  Ky  

P.  B.  M.  924  .... 

93.523!  306.834 

Near  Paducah,  Ky  

P.  B.  M.  925  .... 

95.029]  311.774 

Near  Paducah,  Ky  

P.  B.  M.  926  .... 

93.977  1  308.324 

Near  Paducah,  Ky  

P.  B.  M.  927  .... 

94.359|  309.577 

In  Kentucky,  near  Metropolis,  111  

P.  B.  M.  929  .... 

93.050!  305.283 

In  Kentucky,  near  Metropolis,  111  
In  Kentucky   near  Metropolis    111 

P  B.  M.  930  .... 
P.  B.  M.  931  .... 

95.291    312.634 
93.021  i  305.185 

In  Kentucky   near  Metropolis    111 

P.  B.  M.  932  .... 

94.409    309.741 

In  Kentucky   near  Metropolis    111 

P.  B.  M.  933  .... 

94.424   309.788 

In  Kentucky,  near  Metropolis,  111  
In  Kentucky   near  Metropolis    111 

P.  B.  M.  934 
P  B.  M.  935  .... 

94.596J  310.355 
93.685]  307.365 

Near  Ragland   Ky 

P.  B.  M.  936  .... 

94.481]  309.976 

Near  Ragland   Ky 

P.  B.  M.  937.... 

93.314]  306.147 

Near  Ragland   Ky                             

P  B.  M.  938  .... 

94.493]  310.017 

Near  Ragland   Ky                            

P.  B.  M.  939  .... 

98.003]  321.531 

Near  Ragland   Ky               .         

P.  B.  M.  940  .... 

96.749  [317.417 

Near  Ragland   Ky             

P  B.  M.  941  .... 

92.593]  303.783 

P.  B.  M.  942  .... 

96.6111  316.964 

P.  B.  M.  943  .... 

97.239   319.024 

Near  Ogden    Ky 

P.  B.  M.  944  .... 

95.1511  312.174 

Near  Ogden    Ky 

P  B.  M.  945  .... 

96.6061  316.948 

In  Kentucky,  near  Grand  Chain,  111  
In  Kentucky,  near  Grand  Chain,  111  

P.  B.  M.  947  ... 
P.  B.  M.  948  .... 

97.773]  320.778 
96.7321  317.362 

550 


OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 


Place 

Designation 
of 
bench  mark 

Standard, 
elevation 

Meters 

Feet 

In  Kentucky,  near  Grand  Chain,  111  
In  Kentucky,  near  Grand  Chain,  111  

In  Kentucky,  near  Caledonia,  111 

P.  B.  M.  949- 
P.  B.  M.  950.. 
P.   B.   M.   951.. 

93.370 
94.051 
94.494 
92.595 
96.163 
94.433 
93.858 
92.320 
91.958 
97.286 
96.864 
97.190 
97.320 
96.269 
94.850 
96.267 
95.153 
94.296 
93.663 
93.647 
232.834 
234.686 
264.987 
274.677 
273.508 
271.216 
280.872 
301.285 
313.322 
289.539 
303.053 
333.488 
292.084 
308.271 
278.428 
305.038 
353.306] 
369.514 
356.137| 
340.3981 

306.331 
308.566 
310.020 
303.788 
315.494 
309.820 
307.933 
302.887 
301.700 
319.178 
317.794 
318.865 
319.292 
315.841 
311.186 
315.836 
312.180 
309.369 
307.293 
307.241 
763.890 
769.966 
869.378 
901.169 
897.334 
889.814 
921.494 
988.466 
1027.957 
949.929 
994.266 
1094.119 
958.279 
1011.386 
913.476 
1000.779 
1159.138 
1212.314 
1168.426 
1116.789 

In  Kentucky,  near  Caledonia,  111  
In  Kentucky,  near  Caledonia,  111  
In  Kentucky,  near  Caledonia,  111  
Near  Humphries  Creek,  Ky. 

P.   B.    M.   952.. 
P.  B.  M.   953.. 
P.   B.   M.   954.. 
P.  B.  M.  955.. 
P.   B.  M.   956- 
P.  B.  M.   957- 
P.  B.   M.   958- 

Near  Humphries  Creek,  Ky  

Near  Holloway,  Ky  

Near  Holloway,  Ky  

Near  Holloway,  Ky  

P.   B.  M.   959- 
P.   B.   M.   960- 

Near  Holloway,  Ky  

Holloway,  Ky 

P    B    M    961 

Near  Holloway,  Ky  .     . 

P.   B.   M.   962.. 
P.   B.  M.   963- 

Near  Holloway,  Ky  

Near  East  Cairo,  Ky  

P.   B.   M.   964.. 
P.  B.   M.   965.. 
.    B.    M.    966.. 
P.  B.   M.   967.. 
F.   B.   M.   968.. 
Jl    
K!    

L!     

M,  
Nt    
0,    
Pt    

Q!     

R,    

Near  East  Cairo,  Ky  

Near  East  Cairo,  Ky  

Near  East  Cairo,  Ky  

Near  East  Cairo,  Ky  

High  Bridge,  Ky  

Near  High  Bridge,  Ky  
Between  High  Bridge  and  Burgin,  Ky..'.. 
Burgin,   Ky  .    . 

Burgin,   Ky  

Faulconer,  Ky  

Near  Danville,  Ky  

Danville,  Ky  

Near  Junction  City  Ky 

Near  Junction  City,  Ky  

Si    
Tt    

Ut    
V,    

w,  

X,        

Near  Moreland,  Ky  

Moreland,  Ky  

Near  Moreland,  Ky  

McKinney,  Ky 

Near  McKinney    Ky 

Near  Kings  Mountain    Ky  * 

Y,     

Kings  Mountain    Ky 

Zt    

Waynesburg    Ky 

A,    . 

Eubank,   Ky 

B,    . 

Floyd,  Ky.   .. 

C,    . 

ADJUSTMENT  AND  ELEVATIONS 


551 


Place 

Designation 
of 
bench   mark 

Standard 
elevation 

Meters 

Feet 

Near  Pulaski,  Ky  

Dj 

340.566 
342.904 
326.951 
292.241 
262.024 
268.005 
272.108 
268.363 
249.177 
235.332 
280.439 
290.058 
363.515 
393.551 
401.546 
430.209 
415.308 
109.864 
112.931 
119.275 
111.427 
119.732 
97.417 
98.668 
101.983 
99.053 
156.192) 
152.534 
156.548 
162.134) 
237.4751 
279.016! 
282.0041 
286.150] 
278.533 
273.038 
281.565 
284.890 
292.011 
297  064 

1117.340 
1125.011 
1072.672 
958.794 
859.657 
879.280 
892.741 
880.454 
817.508 
772.085 
920.074 
951.632 
1192.632 
1291.175 
1317.406 
1411.444 
1362.556 
360.445 
370.508 
391.321 
365.573 
392.821 
319.609 
323.713 
334.589 
324.976 
512.440 
500.439 
513.608 
531.935 
779.116 
915.405 
925.208 
938.810 
913.820 
895.792 
923.768 
934.677 
958.039 
974.617 

Science  Hill,  Ky.  . 

E, 

Norwood,   Ky. 

F  

Near  Somerset,  Ky. 

G  

Somerset,  Ky  

A- 

Somerset,  Ky  

E- 

Somerset,  Ky  

C- 

Somerset,  Ky  

D- 

Near  Burnside,  Ky. 

E- 

Burnside,   Ky  

F- 

Near  Sloans  Valley,  Ky 

G- 

Alpine,    Ky. 

H- 

Greenwood,    Ky 

I. 

Flat  Rock,  Ky. 

J5 

Whitley,  Ky. 

K- 

Pine  Knot,  Ky  

u  

Ms    

No.  XI  
No.  X  

Between  Strunk,  Ky.,  and  Isham,  Tenn. 
Fulton,   Ky  

Alexander,  Ky 

Clinton    Ky 

No.  IX  

Arlington    Ky 

No.  VIII  
No.  VII  
No.  VI  
No.  V 

Bardwell,  Ky  

Near  Bardwell,  Ky 

Fort  Jefferson,  Ky 

Wickliffe,  Ky  

No.  IV 

East  Cairo,  Ky  

No.  Ill  

Newport,  Ky  

A    

Newport    Ky 

USE 

Covington    Ky 

B 

Ludlow    Ky 

c 

Crescent  Springs,  Ky  

D              

Erlanger    Ky 

E 

Dixon    Ky 

P 

Richwood,  Ky 

G                     .1 

Walton,  Ky.                                               

H 

Near  Crittenden,  Ky                             

I 

Crittenien,  Ky.                             

j 

Sherman,  Ky.                                

K              

Dry  Ridge,  Ky.            

L       

Williamstown.   Ky.    .. 

M 

552 


OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OP  KENTUCKY 


Place 

Designation 
of 
bench   mark 

Standard 
elevation 

Meters  [    Feet 

Mason,  Ky  

N  
O  
p 

278.908 
286.971 
292.271 
290.606 
261.700 
263.843 
275.398 
255.070 
260.848 
267.325 
265.403 
285.248 
286.354 
298.568 
308.166 
313.527 
297.197 
289.917 
288.655 
269.934 
267.670 
273.423 
121.827 
120.287 
120.856 
124.593 
123.838 
124.860 
119.305 
115.696 
121.990 
125.177 
120.508 
121.978| 
122.153] 
127.458 
119.835| 
135.920 
137.521| 
121.503! 

915.051 
941.504 
958.892 
953.430 
858.594 
865.625 
903.535 
836.842 
855.799 
877.049 
870.743 
935.851 
839.480 
979.552 
1011.041 
1028.630 
975.054 
951.169 
947.029 
885.608 
878.181 
897.055 
399.695 
394.642 
396.510 
408.770 
406.292 
409.644 
391.419 
379.579 
400.230" 
410.684 
395.366 
400.188 
400.765 
418.169 
393.159 
445.931 
451.183 
398.630 

Bianchett,  Ky  

Corinth,  Ky  

Hinton    Ky  

Q 

Sadieville,  Ky.   .      . 

R  

s 

Near  Sadieville,  Ky. 

Rogers   Gap,   Ky.   . 

T  

u  

Near  Kinkaid,  Ky. 

Near  Georgetown,  Ky 

V  

w  '. 

X  
Y  
Z  
At  

B!  
d  
Dj  
E!  
Ft  
G!  
Ht  

Georgetown,   Ky. 

Near  Donerail,  Ky. 

Greendale,   Ky. 

Hillenmeyer,  Ky. 

Lexington,   Ky. 

Near  Lexington,  Ky. 

Brannon,  Ky  :    .. 

Near  Brannon,  Ky. 

Nicholasville,   Ky. 

Mlcholasville,   Ky. 

Jessamine,  Ky. 

Wilmore,  Ky.  . 

Near  High  Bridge,  Ky  

I,  

P.  B.  M.  629.... 
P.  B.  M.  630.... 
P.  B.  M.  631.... 
P.  B.  M.  632.... 
P.  B.  M.  633.... 
P.  B.  M.  634.... 
P.  B.  M.  635.... 
P  B.  M.  635A 
P.  B.  M.  636.... 
P.  B.  M.  637.... 
P.  B.  M.  638.... 
P.  M.  G.  639.... 
P  B  M  640 

In  Kentucky,  near  Evans  Landing,  Ind.. 
In  Kentucky,  near  Browns  Landing,  Ind. 
In  Kentucky,  near  Browns  Landing,  Ind. 
In  Kentucky,  near  Mosquito  Creek,  Ind. 
Near  Rock  Haven,  Ky.  . 

Near  Rock  Haven,  Ky  
Rock  Haven,  Ky  
Rock  Haven,  Ky. 

Near  Rock  Haven,  Ky  
Near  Dittoes  Landing,  Ky  
Near  Dittoes  Landing,  Ky  
In  Kentucky,  near  Tobacco  Landing,  Ind. 
Near  Brandenburg    Ky 

Near  Brandenburg,  Ky  

P.  B.  M.  641.... 

Near  Brandenburg,  Ky  

P.  B.  M.  642.... 
P.  B.  M.  643....  | 
P.  B.  M.  643A| 
P.  B.  M.  644.... 

Brandenburg,    Ky. 

Brandenburg,    Ky.   .. 

Near  Brandenburg,  Ky.  .. 

ADJUSTMENT  AND  ELEVATIONS 


553 


Place 

Designation 
of 
bench   mark 

Standard 
elevation 

Meters!    Feet 

In  Kentucky,  near  Mauckport,  Ind  
In  Kentucky,  near  Mauckport,  Ind  
In  Kentucky,  near  Mauckport,  Ind  

P.  B.  M.  645.... 
P.  B.  M.  646.... 
P   B   M    647 

120.370 
122.881 
124.721 
120.134 
126.042 
121.625 
127.466 
121.201 
119.027 
120.739 
129.243 
127.868 
128.076 

130.553 

131.011 
120.457 
122.125 
121.106 
121.056 
120.227 
112.737 
118.766 
'  116.765 
1  117.221 
117.883 
117.834 
117.635 
119.32C 
120.02'! 
|  121.95' 
124.6K 
119.001 
116.65 
1  123.85 
.|  117.46 
.    116.87 
.    117.19 
.    117.63 

394.915 
403.153 
409.188 
394.140 
413.522 
399.032 
418.195 
397.640 
390.509 
396.125 
424.025 
419.513 
420.197 

428.324 

|    429.824 
395.199 
400.673 
|    397.329 
|    397.166 
394.446 
369.872 
!    389.652 
|    383.086 
j    384.581 
j    386.754 
|    386.595 
|    385.941 
391.469 
393.779 
|    400.122 
|    408.843 
!    390.422 
Z|    382.716 
>'    406.338 
J!    385.397 
5|    383.447 
1!    384.485 
6!    385.943 

In  Kentucky,  near  Mauckport,  Ind  
In  Kentucky,  near  Mauckport,  Ind  
Near  Crecelius,  Ky  

P.  B.  M.  648.... 
P.  B.  M.  651.... 
P  B.  M.  654.... 
P.  B.  M.  655.... 
P.  B.  M.  656.... 
P.  B.  M.  657.... 
P.  B.  M.  658.... 
P.  B.  M.  660.... 
P   B   M    661 

Near  Crecelius  Ky 

Near  Crecelius   Ky 

Near  Crecelius,  Ky                                        , 

Near  Peckenpaugh,  Ky  
In  Kentucky,  near  Leavenworth,  Ind  
In  Kentucky,  near  Leavenworth,  Ind  

Leavenworth,  Ind  

P    B    M    661A 

Leavenworth,  Ind  

High    Water 
1883-   

High    Water 
1884 

In  Kentucky,  near  Leavenworth,  Ind  
In  Kentucky,  near  Leavenworth,  Ind  « 
Near  Crecelius   Ky               

P.  B.  M.  662.... 
P.  B.  M.  663.... 
P.  B.  M.  664.... 
P.  B.  M.  665.... 
P.  B.  M.  666.... 
P.  B.  M.  667.... 
P.  B.  M.  668.... 
P.  B.  M.  669.... 
P.  B.  M.  670.... 
P.  B.  M.  671.... 
P.  B.  M.  672.... 
P.  B.  M.  673... 
P.  B.  M.  674.. 
P.  B.  M.  678... 
P.  B.  M.  679... 
P.  B.  M.  680... 
P.  B.  M.  681... 
P.  B.  M.  682... 
P.  B.  M.  683... 
P.  B.  M.  684... 
P.  B.  M.  685  . 
P.  B.  M.  686.. 
P.  B.  M.  687.. 

Near  Crecelius,  Ky.          

Near  Wolfe  Creek    Ky                -.       

Near  Wolfe  Creek    Ky               

In  Kentucky,  near  Alton,  Ind  

Near  Concordia,  Ky.  ... 
Flint  Island,  Ky.  ... 
Flint  Island,  Ky  

554 


OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 


Place 

Designation 
of 
bench   mark 

Standard 
elevation 

Meters 

Feet 

Flint  Island    Ky 

P.  B.  M.  687A 
P.  B.  M.  688.... 
P.  B.  M.  689.... 
P.  B.  M.  690.... 
P.  B.  M.  691.... 
P.  B.  M.  692.... 
P.  B.  M.  693.... 
P.  B.  M.  694.... 
P  B   M    695 

112.897 
117.315 
119.586 
122.360 
118.898 
115.828 
117.627 
115.823 
116.541 
120.210 
126.573 
116.897 
117.420 
116.174 
120.770 
121.792 
118.685 
116.753 
118.261 
115.111 
116.562 
115.750 
125.825 

126.991 
126.747 
116.519 
120.493 
121.441 
118.816 
116.307 
114.621 
107.614 
109.914 
107.401 
103.306 
103.200 

115.025 
114  7K2 

370.395 
384.890 
392.342 
401.443 
390.084 
380.912 
385.913 
379.996 
382.352 
394.389 
415.264 
383.519 
385.234 
381.148 
396.225 
399.580 
389.386 
383.048 
387.996 
377.659 
382.422 
379.755 
412.812 

416.637 
415.835 
382.279 
395.317 
398.428 
389.814 
381.583 
376.051 
353.065 
360.610 
352.364 
338.929 
338.581 

377.378 
376.48? 

Burchs  Landing,  Ky  

Near  Chenault   Ky 

Chenault,    Ky  ,  
Near  Chenault,  Ky  
Near  Lahant,  Ky  
Near  Lahant,  Ky  
Near  Ammos,  Ky  

Near  Stephensport    Ky 

P   B   M   696 

Near  Stephensport,  Ky  

Stephensport    Ky 

P.  B.  'M.  697.... 
P.  B.  M.  697A 
P.  B.  M.  698.... 
P.  B.  M.  699.... 
P   B    M   700 

Near  Stephensport,  Ky  
Near  Addison,  Ky  
Near  Addison,  Ky.       

Holt,  Ky  

Near  Holt    Ky 

P.  B.  M.  701.... 
P.  B.  M.  702.... 
P.  B.  M.  703.... 
P.  B.  M.  704.... 
P.  B.  M.  705.... 
P.  B.  M.  706.... 
P.  B.  M.  707.... 
P.  B.  M.  707A 
High    Water 
1884  
P.  B.  M.  708.... 
P.  B.  M.  709.... 
P.  B.  M.  710— 
P.  B.  M.  711— 
P.  B.  M.  712— 
P.  B.  M.  713— 
P.  B.  M.  714— 
P.  B.  M.  795.... 
P.  B.  M.  796— 
P.  B.  M.  797— 
Ref.    Point  
Old  B.  M  
High   Water. 
1884    
P    "R    M    797AI 

Near  Holt    Ky 

Near  Cloverport    Ky 

Near  Cloverport    Ky               

Cloverport   Ky 

Cloverport   Ky 

Near  Cloverport    Ky                               

Near  Cloverport,  Ky  

Near  Skillman    Ky 

Near  Skillman    Ky 

Near  Skillman    Ky 

Near  Skillman    Ky 

Near  Henderson    Kj 

Near  Henderson    Ky 

Near  Henderson,  Ky 

Henderson,  Ky 

Henderson,  Ky. 

Henderson,  Ky. 

Henderson,  Ky.  ... 

ADJUSTMENT  AND  ELEVATIONS 


555 


Place 

Designation 
of 
bench  mark 

Standard 
elevation 

Meters  I    Feet 

Henderson,  Ky  

Near  Henderson,  Ky 

P.  B.  M.  798.... 
P   B   M   799 

118.177 
107.692 
108.433 
110.839 
110.604 
117.042 
112.466 
110.516 
110.422 
107.390 
106.227 
106.544 
105.670 
106.236 
109.017 
108.411 
109.431 
104.220 
108.192 
109.429 
108.807 
109.657 
106.169 
105.193 
105.592 
103.565 
108.682 

387.718 
353.319 
355.752 
363.644 
362.872 
383.995 
368.983 
362.585 
362.276 
352.329 
348.514 
349.552 
346.685 
348.543 
357.668 
355.678 
359.025 
341.927 
354.959 
359.019 
356.978 
359.765 
348.323 
345.121 
346.429 
339.780 
356.568 

Near  Henderson,  Ky  
Near  Henderson,  Ky 

P.  B.  M.  800.... 
P.  B.  M.  801 

Near  Henderson,  Ky. 

P.  B.  M.  802.... 
P.  B.  M.  803.... 
P.  B.  M.  805.... 
P.  B.  M.  806.... 
P.  B.  M.  807.... 
P.  B.  iM.  808.... 
P.  B.  M.  809.... 
P.  B.  M.  810.... 
P.  B.  M.  811™. 
P.  B.  M.  812.™ 
P.  B.  M.  813.... 

Near  McDonalds  Landing,  Ky 

Near  McDonalds  Lanling,  Ky. 

Near  McDonalds  Landing,  Ky  t 
Near  Cypress  Ben'3    Ky  
Near  Cypress  Bend.  Ky  

Cypress  Bend,   Ky  

In  Kentucky,  near  West  Franklin,  Ind  
In  Kentucky,  near  West  Franklin,  Ind  
Near  Diamond  Island,  Ky 

Near  Diamond  Island,  Ky 

Near  Diamond  Island,  Ky  
Near  Diamond  Island,  Ky  

P.  B.  M.  815.... 
P.  B.  M.  816.... 

Near  Alzey,  Ky  

P.  B.  M.  817.. 
P.  B.  M.  818.™ 
P.  B.  M.  819.... 
P.  B.  M.  820.™ 
P.  B.  M.  821™. 
P.  B.  M.  822.™ 
P.  B.  M.  823.... 
P.  B.  M.  824™. 
P.  B.  M.  825™. 
P.  B.  M.  826.... 

Near  Alzey    Ky 

In  Kentucky,  near  Mount  Vernon,  Ind  
In  Kentucky,  near  .Mount  Vernon,  Ind  
In  Kentucky,  near  Mount  Vernon,  Ind...., 
In  Kentucky,  near  Mount  Vernon,  Ind  
In  Kentucky,  near  Mount  Vernon,  Ind  
In  Kentucky,  near  Mount  Vernon,  Ind  
Near  Slim  Island,  Ky  

Near  Slim  Island    Ky 

'Near  Slim  Island    Ky 

P.  B.  M.  827....   107.588)    352.979 
P.  B.  M.  828....   105.038]    344.612 
P.  B.  M.   829..;  107.140]    351.508 
P.  B.  M.  830....    104.416]    342.570 
P.  B.  M.  831....J  104.256|    342.048 
P.  B.  M.  833....   107.847]    353.828 
P.  B.  M.  834....   105.735]    346.900 
P.  B.  M.  835....|  101.941]    334.451 
P.  B.  M.  836....]  105.096)    344.802 
P.  B.  M.  837....   104.966)    344.375 
P.  B.  M.  838....   104.847]    343.987 
P.  B.  M.  839....    103.583!    339.839 
P.  B.  M.  840....   102.867)    337.490 

Near  Slim  Island    Ky 

Near  Slim  Island    Ky                    

Near  Slim  Island,  Ky.                

Near  Uniontown,  Ky  

Near  Uniontown    Ky 

Near  Uniontown   Ky                          

Near  Uniontown   Ky                  

Near  Wabash  Island    Ky 

Near  Wabash  Island    Ky 

N^ar  Wabash  Island.  Ky.  .. 

556 


OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 


Place 

Designation 
of 
bench  mark 

Standard 
elevation 

Meters  j    Feet 

Near  Wabash  Island,  Ky  

P  B  M.  841 

103.228 
103.082 
100.911 
107.661 
106.790 
106.866 
106.559 
105.159 
101.276 
105.349 
105.079 
101.605 
101.755 
99.695 
103.866 
103.250 
101.019 
98.939 
101.888 
101.035 
103.690 
103.912 
102.635 
104.208 
100.787 
105.315 
104.744 
99.630 
102.833 
103.376 
99.908 
100.728 
102.883 
102.721 
97.839 
103.211 
99.903 
99.190 
98.507 
101.711 

338.675 
338.195 
331.072 
353.219 
350.361 
350.609 
349.601 
345.009 
332.271 
345.631 
344.746 
333.348 
333.842 
327.082 
340.768 
338.746 
331.426 
324.602 
334.279 
331.479 
340.189 
340.917 
336.728 
341.888 
330.665 
345.520 
343.649 
326.868 
337.379 
339.160 
237.781 
330.472 
337.541 
337.009 
320.992 
338.618 
327.764 
325.427 
323.184 
333.698 

Near  Wabash  Island,  Ky  

P  B  M  842 

Near  Wabash  Island^  Ky  

P.  B.  M.  843.... 
P.  B.  M.  844.... 
P.  B.  M.  845.... 
P.  B.  M.  846— 
P.  B.  M.  847.... 
P.  B.  M.  848— 
P.  B.  M.  849— 
P.  B.  M.  850— 
P.  B.  M.  851— 
P  B  M.  852 

Near  Raleigh,  Ky  

Raleigh,   Ky  

Near  Browns  Island,  Ky. 

Near  Browns  Island,  Ky. 

In  Kentucky,  near  Shawneetown,  111  
In  Kentucky,  near  Shawneetown,  111  , 
In  Kentucky,  near  Shawneetown,  111  
In  Kentucky,  near  Shawneetown,  111  
In  Kentucky,  near  Shawneetown,  111. 

Near  (Cincinnati  Towhead,  Ky. 

P.  B.  M.  853..- 

Near  Cincinnati,  Towhead,  Ky  
Near  Cincinnati,   Towhead,  Ky  

P.  B.  M.  854.. 
P.  B.  M.  855— 

Near  Dekoven,  Ky  
Near  Dekoven,  Ky  
Near  Dekoven,  Ky  

Near  Dekoven,  Ky.  .- 

P.  B.  M.  856.... 
P.  B.  M.  857— 
P.  B.  M.  858— 
P.  B.  M.  859— 
P.  B.  M.  860— 
P.  B.  M.  860A 
P.  B.  M.  862— 
P.  B.  M.  863— 
P.  B.  M.  864— 
P.  B.  M.  865— 
P.  B.  M.  866— 
P.  B.  M.  867— 
P.  B.  M.  868— 
P.  B.  M.  869— 
P.  B.  M.  870— 
P.  B.  M.  871— 
P.  B.  M.  872— 
P.  B.  M.  873— 
P.  B.  M.  874.... 
P.  B.  M.  875— 

Near  Dekoven,  Ky. 

Near  Dekoven,  Ky. 

Near  Casey  ville,  Ky. 

Near  Caseyville,  Ky. 

Near  Caseyville,  Ky. 

Near  Weston,  Ky. 

Near  Weston,  Ky. 

Near  Fords  Ferry,  Ky. 

Fords  Ferry,  Ky. 

In  Kentucky,  near  Cave  in-Rock,  111  
In  Kentucky,  near  Cave-in-Rock,  111  
In  Kentucky,  near  Cave  in-Rock,  111  
Near  Tolu,  Ky  

Near  Tolu,  Ky  

Near  Tolu,  Ky  

Near  Tolu,  Ky  

Tolu,   Ky 

P  B  M  876 

Near  Carrsville,  Ky  

P.  B.  M.  880— 

Near  Carrsville,  Ky  

P.  B.  M.  881.*.. 
P.  B.  M.  882— 

Near  Carrsville,  Ky  

Near  Carrsville,  Ky  

P.  B.  M.  883— 

ADJUSTMENT  AND  ELEVATIONS 


657 


Place 


Near  Carrsville,  Ky 

Near  Carrsville,  Ky 

Near  Carrsville,  Ky 

Near  Carrsville,  Ky 

Fort  Jefferson,  Ky 

Columbus,   Ky 

Columbus,   Ky 

Columbus,   Ky 

Columbus,   Ky 

Near  Worshams  Landing,  Ky. 
Near  Worshams  Landing,  Ky. 

Near  Hickman,  Ky 

Hickman,  Ky 

Hickman,  Ky 

Near  Hickman,  Ky 

Louisville,   Ky 

Georgetown,   Ky 

Near  Georgetown,  Ky 

Duvall,   Ky 

Stamping  Ground,  Ky 

Near  Stamping  Ground,  Ky 

Switzer,   Ky 

Near  Switzer,  Ky 

Elkhorn,  Ky 

Steadmantown,  Ky 

Near  Steadmantown,  Ky 

Frankfort,    Ky 

Frankfort,    Ky 

Near  Kennebec,  Ky 

Near  Kennebec,  Ky 

Near  Benson,  Ky 

Near  Benson,  Ky 

Hatton,  Ky 

Near  Hatton,  Ky 

Near  Hatton,  Ky 

Bagdad,  Ky 

Christiansburg,   Ky 

Near  Christiansburg,  Ky 

Near  Christiansburg,  Ky 

Near  Christiansburg,  Ky 


Designation 

of 
bench  mark 


Standard 
elevation 


Meters     Feet 


P.  B.  M.  884....  104.308 
P.  B.  M.  885....  96.623 
P.  B.  M.  886....  103.654 
P.  B.  M.  887....  96.969 

P.  B.  M.  6 97.941 

P.  B.  M.  7 j  96.055 

P.  B.  M.  8 |  93.846 

P.  B.  M.  9 |  94.384 

B.  M.  10 |  137.861] 

B.  M.  11 |  93.486| 

B.  M.  12 j  92.330] 

B.  M.  13 j  91.895] 

B.  M.  14 |  109.797| 

B.  M.  15 |  94.502J 

P.  B.  M.  16 |  91.740] 

R.  R.  Bridge....!  136.481] 
U.  S.  G.  S.  866|  263.818' 
U.  S.  G.  S.  798 1  243.142] 
U.  S.  G.  S.  840]  256.152] 
U.  S.  G.  S.  802]  244.555] 
U.  S.  G.  S.  714]  217.500] 
U.  S.  G.  S.  732]  223.282] 
U.  S.  B.  M.  744i  226.912] 
U.  S.  G.  S.  6731  205.199] 
U.  S.  G.  S.  714]  217.752] 
U.  S.  B.  M.  675]  205.677] 
U.  S.  G.  S.  511]  155.816] 
U.  S.  G.  S.  512]  156.159] 
U.  S.  G.  S.  537!  163.665] 
U.  S.  B.  M.  562)  171.281] 

Bridge  j  182.802] 

U.  S.  G.  S.  600]  182.802' 
U.  S.  G.  S.  714!  217.772] 
U.  S.  G.  S.  829|  252.862] 
U.  S.  G.  S.  881!  268.415] 
U.  S.  G.  S.  912!  277.959) 
U.  S.  G.  S.  903!  275.357! 
U.  S.B.M.  882]  268.819) 
U.  S.  G.  S.  849|  258.901  j 
U.  S.  G.  S.  724|  220.6641 


342.217 
317.003 
340.070 
318.140 
321.328 
315.140 
307.893 
309.658 
452.299 
306.712 
302.919 
301.492 
360.226 
310.045 
300.984 
447.771 
865.543 
797.709 
840.392 
802.344 
713.581 
732.551 
744.460 
673.224 
714.408 
674.792 
511.206 
512.332 
536.958 
561.945 
599.743 
599.743 
714.474 
829.598 


911.937 
903.401 
881.951 
849.411 
723.962 


558 


OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES   OF  KENTUCKY 


Place 

Designation 
of 
bench   mark 

Standard 
elevation 

Meters 

Feet 

Shelbyville    Ky 

U.  S.  G.  S.  760 
U.  S.  G.  S.  750 
U.  S.  G.  S.  725 

231.560 
228.643 
220.962 
251.395 
213.797 
191.841 
195.070 
181.424 
193.338 
198.914 
220.756 
171.141 
164.282 
167.635 
166.989 
168.759 
163.958 

138.481 
138.388 

759.709 
750.139 
724.939 
824.785 
701.433 
629.398 
639.992 
595.222 
634.310 
652.603 
724.264 
561.485 
538.982 
549.982 
547.863 
553.670 
537.919 

454.333 
454.028 

Scotts   Station,  Ky 

Near  Field  Station,  Ky  

Simpsonville     Ky 

U   S  G   S   825 

C(  cnor,  Ky  

U.  S.  G.  S.  701 
U.  S.  G.  S.  629 
U.  S.  G.  S.  640 
U.  S.  G.  S.  595 
U.  S.  G.  S.  634 
U.  S.  G.  S.  652 
U.  S.  G.  S.  724 
U.  S.  G.  S.  561 
U.  S.  G.  S.  539 
U.  S.  G.  S.  550 
U.  S.  G.  S.  548 
U.  S.  G.  S.  553 
No.  49       

Long  Run,  Ky  

Near  Eastwood,  Ky  

Near  Beckley,  Ky  

Near  Beckley,  Ky  

Near  Avoca,   Ky  

Anchorage,    Ky  ..             

Lyndon,   Ky  

Near  Warwick  Villa,  Ky  

St.  Mathews,  Ky  

Near  St   Matthews,  Ky 

Near  St.  Matthews,  Ky. 

Louisville,   Ky. 

Louisville,   Ky 

B.  M.  86  or 
No.  16  
B.  M.  13  

Louisville,   Ky. 

CHAPTER  X. 

ELEVATION  ABOVE  SEA  OF  POINTS  IN 
KENTUCKY. 


Compiled  from  Co-operative  Work  of  the  Kentucky  Geological  Survey 
United  States  Geological  Survey  and  From  the  Various 
Railroad  and  River  Survey* 
(Complete  to  Aug.  1,  1919.) 


No.                Place 

County 

Station 

W 

1  Adairville 

1 

&  N    R    R 

589 

2  Addison  
3  jAden  

Breckinridge.... 
Carter    . 

L. 

H.   &  St.   L.   R.   R  
&  O.   R.   R  

371 

626 

4   Adolphus 

Allen 

TT 

SOS 

657 

6  [Aetnaville,    P.   O.   . 

Ohio  

V, 

S.    B.    M  .._ 

444 

6  [Alexander  „.  

Fulton  

TT 

S     C.     0,   S  

368 

7  [Allen  

Floyd 

r 

S.   B.   M. 

638 

8   Allensville 

Todd 

T, 

&  N     R     R 

554 

9  Allen.  _ 

Boyd 

TT 

S.    B     M. 

629 

10   Almo  
11  [Alms   House 

Galloway  „. 

X. 

T 

C.   &  St.   L.    R.    R  
C.    R.    R 

440 
464 

12  [Alonzo  

Floyd 

r 

S.    R.    M.     . 

643 

13  [Alphoretta 

r 

S     B     M 

652 

14  jAlpine. 

McCreary 

•  > 

N.  C.  R.   R. 

1  005 

15  [Altamont  

Laurel.  .  .. 

i. 

&   N     R     R 

1,163 

16  [Alton  „.. 
17  [Alton 

Anderson  

s. 

r 

R.    R  
S     B     M 

722 
839 

18  [Ambrose 

Jessamine 

TT 

s.  n,  M. 

851 

19  [Anchorage  . 

Jefferson 

D 

S.    B     M  

724 

20  [Anderson 

Logan 

TT 

S.   B.   M. 

637 

21  [Anderson 

Todd 

B 

&  G.    R.    R  

650 

I 

W.    in  Ohio  River 

429 

23  [Andersonville 

Daviess 

TT 

S    B    M 

465 

24  [Anton 

TT 

S.   B    M. 

664 

25  [Apex     

Christian 

TT 

S.    B.    M.                   , 

409 

26  Arglllite 

I- 

K.   R.   R. 

524 

27  [Argillite 

Greenup 

TT 

S.    B.    M  

667 

28  [Argyle 

Powell 

T, 

&  B.   Station 

722 

29  [Arlington  

Carlisle  
Knox 

B. 
T, 

M.  near  I.  C.  R.  R.  Sta  

&  N.   R.   R. 

363 
995 

31  [Ashbyburg  

Hopkins  
Pike 

U. 

r 

S.   B.   M  
S.   B.    M. 

385 
1  084 

33  [Ashland 

Boyd 

r 

&  O.   R.   R  

652 

34  [Ashland 

Boyd 

T. 

W.  in  Ohio  River 

486 

35  Askin  _  
36   Athens 

Breckinridge... 

i.. 

r 

H.  &  St.  L.  R.  R  
&  0.    R.    R. 

613 
1  006 

37  [Athol  

Breathltt  

L. 

T, 

&  E.  R.  R.  Station  
&  N.   R.   R. 

744 
605 

T, 

W     In  Ohio  River 

444 

Bracken  

C. 

*   0,    R.    R,         _ 

505 

41   Austerlitz 

Bourbon    . 

I, 

&  N.    R     R 

918 

42   Auxler 

Johnson  

TT 

S.  B.  M.  C.  &  0.  Station 

630 

T, 

S,    R.    R, 

733 

Fayette 

Tr 

&  E.    Station 

944 

Kt  IRflprm    (~!r*>ek      ... 

Hart  

1.. 

&  N.   R.   R  

621 

559 


560 


OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 


Elevation  Above  Sea   of  Points   in   Kentucky— Continued. 


No. 

Place 

County 

Station 

U 

3s 

46 
47 
48 
49 
50 
51 
52 
53 
54 
55 
56 
57 
58 
59 
60 
61 
62 
63 
64 
65 
66 
67 
68 
69 
70 
71 
72 
73 
74 
75 
76 
77 
78 
79 
80 
81 
82 
83 
84 
85 
86 
87 

89 
90 
91 
92 

94 
95 
96 

97 

Shelby 

U  S  B  M  R  R  Station 

» 

471 
397 
686 
683 
486 
829 
634 
960 
637 
417 
390 
665 
483 
1,281 
422 
569 
641 
397 
1,281 
443 
390 
761 
618 
690 
713 
651 
413 
1,492 
599 
546 
1,314 
892 
408 
440 
755 
397 
875 
423 
431 
409 
598 
380 
943 
355 
640 
452 
732 
646 
540 
400 
682 

1  Baker 

Caldwell  
Hopkins....  
Anderson  

U.  S.  B  M.  R.  R.  Station 

Bakersport.  —  

Ballard 

U.  S.  B.  M  
B.  M.  near  P.  O  „  
U  S  B  M 

Muhlenberg  
Kenton  _.  
Floyd 

U  S  B  M 

Bank  Lick  

L.  &  N.  R.  R  _  
U  S  G  S 

Barboursville  
Bardstown  
Bardstown  Jet  — 
Bardwell  .  

Knox  
Nelson  
Bullitt  
Carlisle  
Carroll 

L.  &  N.  R.  R  
L.  &  N.  R.  R  
L.  &  N.  R.  R...._  -  
B  M  on  C  H 

L  &  N  R  R 

Barnsley  
Barren  Fork  

Hopkins  _  
McCreary  

U.  S.  B.  M  -  
Q.  &  C.  R.  R  _  
Lock  1.  Top  of  wall  

Bart  -  -  

Wayne 

Bart  
Baskett  
Bath  

Wayne  
Henderson  
Knott  

U.  S.  B.  M.  near  P.  O  
U.  S.  B.  M  _  
U  S  B  M 

L  &  N  R  R 

Beals  
Beard's  

Henderson  
Oldham  
Lee  
Lee  
Lee 

U.  S.  B.  M.  _„  
L  &  N  R  R 

Beattyville  
Beattyville  Jet  _. 
Beattyville  Jet  

L.  W.  in  Kentucky  River  
U.  S.  B.  M.  L.  &  B.  Station.. 
L  &  E  R  R 

Floyd 

C  &  O  R  R 

Beaver  Dam  — 

Ohio  
Knott-Letcher 
Jefferson  
Ohio_  
Pike 

U.  S.  B.  M  
U  S  B  M 

Beckley  
Beda  -  — 

U.  S.  B.  M.  L.  &  N.  Station  
U.  S.  B.  M  
n  j&  n  T?  R 

Bedford...  _  
Beechgrove  
Belamy  Store  

Bourbon  L.  &  N.  R.   R  
McLean  'u.    S.   B.   M  „  
Ohio  U.   S.   B.  M  
Pike                    'u     S     B     M 

Belcourt  
Bellevue  
Bell's  Mill  Ford.  
Belmont  
Belton  _..  
Benson  

Webster             ITT    s    R    M                    _.. 

Henry  
Bullitt  
Bullitt  
Muhlenberg  
Franklin  
Marshall  
Madison  
Carlisle  
Harrison  
Jefferson  
Hardin  „ 

L.  &  N.  R.  R  —  
TJ.  S.  B.  M  
L.  &  N.  R.  R  
L!  &  N.  R.  R  
U.  S.  B.  M.  R.  R.  Station  
N  C  &  St  L.  R.  R  

Berea.  
[Berkley  
Berry  
Bethany  
Bethlehem  
Betsey  Layne  
|Beulah  
|Bevier  
Big  Clifty  

L.  &  N.  R.  R  -  
M.  &  O.  R.  R  
L.  &  N.  R.  R...._  
U  S  B  M  

I.  C.  R.  R  
TJ  S  B  M 

Hopkins  
Muhlenberg-  
Grayson  

U.  S.  B.  M  
L.  &  N.  R.  R  
1  C  R  R  

ELEVATIONS  ABOVE  SEA 
Elevation  Above  Sea  of  Points  in  Kentucky— Continued. 


561 


No.                Place 

County 

Station 

P 

98  Big-  Sandy  Jet  
99  IBig  Sandy  River 

Boyd  

C.  &  O.  R.  R  

668 
498 
621 
626 
648 
649 
587 
587 
594 
606 
637 
660 
854 
1614 
382 
459 
348 
362 
998 
362 
953 
445 
669 
595 
410 
394 
573 
387 
894 
663 
653 
640 
361 
897 
646 
1,264 
538 
1,130 
651 
425 
416 
690 
615 
431 
747 
928 
469 
443 
674 
919 
863 
680 

100  |Big  Sandy  River  
101  |Big-  Sandy  River  
102  |Big  Sandy  River  
103  |Big  Sandy  River  
104  |Bigr  Sandy  River..... 
105  |BIg  Sandy  River  
106  |Big  Sandy  River  — 
107  |Big  Sandy  River  
108  |Big  Sandy  River  
109  |Bigr  Sandy  River  
110  |Big  Sandy  River  
Ill  |Big  Spring  
112  IBirk  

Lawrence  
Lawrence  
kfartin  
Martin  
Martin  
Johnson  
Floyd  
Floyd  
Floyd  
Pike..  
Pike  
Bullitt  

L.  W.  at  mouth  of  Big  Blaine 
L.  W.  at  Louisa  
L.  W.  at  mouth  of  Rockcastle 
L.   W.   at  Richardson  
L.   W.   at  mouth  of  Paint  Cr. 
1,.    W.   at   mouth  of  Paint   Cr. 
L.  W.  at  mouth  of  John  Cr  
Li.    W.    at   Prestonsburg  
L,.  W.  at  mouth  of  Mud  Creek 
L.  W.  at  Pikeville  
L.   W.  at  Breaks  of  Sandy  
L.    &  N.    R.    R  
U     S     B     M 

113  |Bishop  

Jefferson  
Union  
Webster  
Letcher  

L     S     R     R 

114  |  Bl  ackburn  
115    Blackford  
116  |  Blackey  

U.    S.    B.    M  
U.   S.   B.   M  
L    &  E    R    R 

117  I  Blackford  

Webster  
Grant  

U     S     B     M 

118  TBlanchet  _  

Q    &  C     R     R 

119  |  Bl  and  ville  
120  IBloomfleld 

Ballard  

Weather   Bureau   „  
U    S    B    M 

Nelson 

L     &   N     R     R 

122  IBlue  Cut 

Logan  
Henderson  
Christian  
Graves  

L    &  N    R    R 

123  [Bluff  City 

U     S     B     M 

U    S    B    M 

125  Boaz  

I.    C.    R.    R  
U    S     B     M 

pike  

U     S     B     M 

128  |  Bolts  Fork  
129  (Bonanza  

Boyd 

U     S     B    M 

Floyd  
McCracken  
Woodford  
Hart 

130  [Bonds  
131  IBonita  

I.   C.   R.   R  _  
U     S    B    M. 

L    &  N    R    R 

133  JBoones  Fork  
134  |  Boonesboro  

Letcher  
Clark  
Madison  .. 

U.    S.    B.    M  _  
L.   W.    in  Kentucky  River  
L    &  N     R     R 

136  |Booneville  

Owsley  
Hardin  
Union  

L.    W.    in    Kentucky   River....... 
L    &  N    R.   R  -... 

138  Bordley  — 

U.   S.   B.    M  _  
U     g     B     M                         

0 

Jefferson  

U     S.    B.    M  

140  Bos  on  

L    &  N    R.  R. 

Mercer  

U.   S.   B.   M  _  

Garranl  

U.    S.    B.   M  _  

144  JBowling  Green  
145  |Boxville  

Union  

U.   S.   B.   M  
L     &  N     R     R. 

147  |Cr  ach  t  
148  |Bracktown  

Kenton  
Fayette 

Q.    &  C.    R.    R  
U     S     B     M  _  

Todd._  

E.  &  G.  R.  R  

562 


OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 


Elevation  Above  Sea   of  Points  in   Kentucky— Continued. 


No. 

Place 

County 

Station 

5<i 
gl 

150 
151 
152 
153 
154 
155 
156 
157 
158 
159 
160 
161 
162 
163 
164 
165 
166 
167 
168 
169 
170 
171 
172 
173 
174 
175 
176 
177 
178 
179 
180 
181 
182 
183 
184 
185 
186 
187 
188 
189 
190 
191 
192 
193 
194 
195 
196 
197 
198 
199 
200 
201 
202 

1  Brannon  

Jessamine  
Meade  
Meade  
Grayson  
Mercer  
Pike......  
Webster  
McCreary  
Knott  _.... 
Warren 

U.   S    B    M 

1,041 
356 
594 
445 
863 
854 
384 
1,314 
1,178 
517 
903 
489 
818 
490 
506 
770 
1,014 
982 
924 
659 
558 
748 
792 
428 
500 
446 
523 
634 
1,443 
565 
911 
848 
589 
770 
787 
604 
543 
1,035 
597 
465 
392 
496 
609 
443 
896 
915 
747 
623 
785 
399 
604 
377 
413 

I  Brandenburg  
Brandenburg  Sta._. 
Bratcher  _  
Braxton  
[Breaks  of  Sandy  
1  Breton  
Bridge  Fork  
jBrinkley  
IBristow 

L.  W.  in  Ohio  River  
L.  H.  &  St.  L.  R.  R  
I.  C.  R.  R  _  

L.  W.  in  Big  Sandy  River  
U.  S.  B.  M  
Q.  &  C.  R.  R  -  
U.  S.  B.  M  
L.  &  N.  R.  R  

Rockcastle  
Owen  
Pulaski 

L.  &  N.  R.  R  

Bromley  _ 

U.  S.  B.  M  :  
Post  Office  -  _  

Brooks  
Brashears  
Brownsboro  
Brumfleld  

Bullitt 

L  &  N  R.  R  ~. 

Mason 

C.  &  O.  R  R.~  

Oldham  
Boyle  _  
Whitley 

L.  &  N.  R.  R.  
L.  &  N.  R.  R  
L  &  N.  R  R. 

Brush  Creek  

Rockcastle  

L  &  N  R  R 

U  S  B  M  - 

C  &  O  R  R 

Buckhorn  

Perry  —  

Oldham 

B.  M.,  mouth  of  Squabble  
Li  &  N  R  R  

Buda 

Fulton  

I.  C.  R.  R  

Buechel  _  
Buel 

Jefferson  
McLean  

Lewis 

U.  S.  B.  M  

U  S  B  M 

Buena  "Vista  
Bull  Creek  ............ 
Burdine 

C.  &  O.  R.  R  

Floyd  

Letcher 

U,  S.  B.  M  
U.  S.  B.  M  

Boyd 

U  S  B  M 

Burgin 

Mercer  
Boone  
McCreary  
McCreary 

U  S.  B.  M  '.  

Burlington  
Burnside  

U.  S.  B.  M.  C.  H  
L.  W.  in  Cumberland  River.... 
Q  &  C  R  R 

Bush  _  
Butler  
Butlersville 

Breathitt  
Pendleton  
Allen 

L  &  E.  R.  R  
L.  &  N.  R.  R  

U  S  B  M 

Cadentown  
Cadmus  „ 

Fayette  
Lawrence  

C.  &  O.  R.  R.  -... 
U.  S.  B.  M  
U  S  B  M 

Cairo 

Calhoun  
California 

McLean  

U.  S.  B.  M  
C  &  O  R  R 

Calvary  
Calvert  
Campbellsburg  
Camp  Dick  Rob'son 
Campton  Junction... 
Cane   Spring  
Caney  
Caneyville  „  
Cannonsburg  
Carlinburg  
GarrpHton  -....- 

Marion  
Marshall  
Henry  
Garrard  
Powell  
Bullitt  
Pike  
Grayson  
Boyd  
Henderson  
Carroll  

L.  &  N.  R.  R  
I.  C.  R.  R  -  
L.  &  N.  R.  R  
U.  S.  B.  M  
U.  S.  B.  M.  L  &  E.  Station.... 
L.  &  N.  R.  R  
U.  S.  B.  M  
I.  C.  R.  R  -  
U.  S.  B.  M  _  
U.  S.  B.  M  
L.  W.  in  Ohio  River  „  

ELEVATIONS  ABOVE  SEA  563 

Elevation  Above  Sea   of  Points  in  Kentucky— Continued. 


No.  1              Place 

County 

Station 

II 

203 
204 
205 
206 
207 
208  | 
209  | 
210  | 
211  | 
212  j 
213 
214 
215 
216  | 
217 
218 
219 
220 
221 
222 
223 
224 
225 
226 
227 
228 
229 
230 
231 
232 
233 
234 
235 
236 
237 
238 
239 
240 
241 
242 
243 
244 
245 
246 
247 
248 
249 
250 
251 
252 
253 
254 

9KK 

Carrollton  

Carroll  
Lewis    

T,,   &  N.   R.   R. 

464 
532 
678 
563 
562 
498 
975 
613 
660 
588 
400 
711 
637 
847 
449 
426 
458 
831 
587 
655 
797 
938 
646 
1,825 
673 
1,006 
906 
674 
754 
685 
351 
450 
380 
628 
824 
442 
498 
732 
636 
805 
389 
340 
387 
548 
676 
615 
463 
431 
730 
1.023 

P,    *   O.    R     R 

P     *•   O     R     R 

Catalpa    

Law  rence.  

U.    S.    B.    M.    . 

Catlettsburg 

Boyd           .    _. 

P.    &   O.    R      R, 

Catlettsburg 

Boyd 

L.  W    in  Ohio  River 

Catnip  Hill 

O       Xr    P.       R       R 

Cave  City        

Barren            _  L.  &  N.  R.  R. 

Cave  Hill               .    - 

U.    S.    B.    M 

L    &  N    R     R 

Fulton 

M     &  <"»     R     R 

Cecilia  _ 

Hardin 

I    C    R     R 

Hardin 

I    C    R    R 

Cedar  Grove  _. 
Centertown  
Central   City 

Pulaski 

Q    &  C    R    R 

Ohio 

U    S    B    M 

Muhlenberg  
Trigs  

U.    S.    B.    M. 

Cerulean  

U.  S.  B.  M.  Station  
P     fr   O     R     R 

Lawrence    

U     S     B     M 

Chatteroy    W    Va. 

N.   &  W.   R     R. 

Chavies  
Chenowee  Tunnel  

Perry  

Breathitt  

L,   &  R,    R,    R,...  

T,,   &  "R     R,    R,   _  

TT.     S.    R,     M,   _  . 

Chestnut  Mtn  

Knott  
Marion  

U.    S.    B.    M  

T,,    fr   *T,    R,    R, 

C    &  O    R    R 

Christianburg  

Clark 

Shelby  
Jefferson  
Mason  

U.  S.  B.  M.     R.  R.  Station  
L.    S.   R.    R  

Clark 

L,   &  N,   R.    R  

Clark 

Shelby  

U     P     B     M 

Clark's  

McCracken  
Caldwell  

I     C     R     R, 

U     S     P     M 

Clay  

U.    S.    B.    M  _..    

Powell  
Breathitt  

U.  S.  B.  M.  L.  &  E.  Station... 

Clayhole  

e 

U.   S.  B.   M.  op.  P.  O  
U.    S.    B.    M  _  -    -- 

U     S.    E.    M,                    — 

i 

Pike 

U.    S.    B.    M  - 

Cliff  
Clifty  
Clinton  
Cloverport  

Floyd  
Todd 

U.  S.  B.  M.  C.  &  O.  Station... 
U     S     B.    M.    ..       .               

Hickman  
Breckinridge... 
Breckinrdige... 

B.  M.  at  Court  House  
L.  W.  in  Ohio  River  
L    H    &  St    L    R.  R.    ~ 

C    &  O    R    R 

Pike 

C    &  O    R    Rx              

Coalton  
Cobb  — 
|Coiltown  ~ 
Col  burg"  ~  

Boyd 

U     8     B     M                   .  —    —  

Caldwell  
Hopkins  
Adair  
Clark 

r.  s.  i1..  .M.  i:.  ii.  stiitiuii 
U.    S.    B.    M  
Kentucky  Geological  Survey.. 
C.   &  O.   R.   R  

Colesburg  _  — 

L    &  N     R     R              — 

425 

Letcher 

U.    S.    B.    M  

1,208 
1,172 

Letcher  

U.    S.    B.    M  

564 


OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OP  KENTUCKY 


Elevation  Above  Sea  of  Points  in  Kentucky— Continued. 


No.                 Place 

County 

Station 

£  O 

S2 

256  JGolumbus  
257  [Columbus  

258  1  Comer 

Hickman  
Hickman  

M. 
L. 
TT 

&  O.   R.  R  

W.    in  Mississippi   River  
S     B     M 

313 
270 
460 

259  |  Concord  

Lewis  
Meade 

c. 

T, 

&  O.   R.   R  
W.    in  Ohio  River 

518 
346 

261  ICongleton 

TT 

S     B     M 

464 

262  [Conner  

Shelby  

Shelby 

U. 
T, 

S.   B.  M.   L.   &  N.   Station.. 
S     T{     R 

706 
868 

264  [Constance  

Boone  

B. 
T, 

M.    on   P.    O  
&  N     R     R 

497 
951 

266  [Coolers  Knob 

Caldwell 

TT 

S     B     M 

743 

267  |  Copeland  
268  [Coral  Ridge 

Breathitt  

L. 

TT 

&  E.   R.  R  

S.    B     M 

765 
500 

269  [Coraville  
270  [Corbin 

Henderson  
Whitley 

TJ. 
Ti 

S.    B.    M._  
&  N.    R.    R. 

412 
1,046 

271  [Corinth 

Q 

&  C.   R.   R  

953 

272  [Cornishville  
273  |  Cory  don  
274  [Covington 

Mercer  
Henderson  

U. 
TJ. 

r 

S.    B.    M  
S.    B.    M  

&   O.    R.    R. 

736 
459 
522 

275  [Covington 

B 

M    on  P    O 

513 

276  [Cowan  

Ti 

&  N.    R.   R. 

927 

277  [Crab  Orchard  
278  [Craftsfield 

Lincoln  

L. 

TT 

&   N.    R.    R  
S     B     M 

919 
1  234 

279  |  Crayne  
280  j  Craynor  
281  [Crescent  Hill  
282  [Crescent   Springs  

Crittenden  
Floyd  
Jefferson  

IT. 
TL 
L. 

0 

S.   B.   M.  R.   R.   Station  
S.    B.    M  
&  N.    R.   R  
&   C.    R.    R  _  

643 

702 
515 
785 

283  |  Cr  ider  
284  |  Crittenden  
285  [Crockettsville 

Caldwell  
Grant  

U. 
Q. 

TT 

S.   B.   M.     R.   R.   Station  
&   C.    R.    R  

S.    B     M. 

487 
908 
710 

286  Crofton 

TJ 

S     B     M 

608 

287   Cromwell    . 

Ohio 

TT 

S     B     M 

482 

288   Cropper 

Shelby 

T, 

&  N     R     R 

289  [Crow-Hickman  
290  [Crum,   W.   Va. 

Daviess  

TJ. 

N 

S.  B.  M  
&  W     R     R 

404 

617 

291   Cullen  
292  [Cumberland  Falls.... 
293  [Cumberland  Falls... 
294  [Cumberland  F.  Sta 

Union  
McCreary  
Whitley  
Whitley 

r. 
Li. 
L. 
<1 

S.    B.    M  
W.  %  mile  above  Falls  
W.   300  yds.   below  Falls  
&  C    R    R 

476 
843 
789 
1,256 

295    Cumberland   Gap  

Tri-State  Cor. 

1,648 

296    Cumberland    Gap.  

Bell 

1,665 

297  [Cumberland  River... 
298   Cumberland  River... 

Wayne  
Pulaski 

M 
Ti 

11    Spring-    Ford    
W     Burnside 

588 
589 

299   Cumberland  River... 
300  [Cumberland  River... 

Pulaski  
Pulaski  

It. 
L. 

W.  at  mouth  of  Fishing  Cr. 
W.    at  mouth  of  Rock- 

577 
662 

301   Cumberland  River... 
302  [Curdsville 

Bell  

T,'. 

J_T 

W.   at  Pineville  
S     B     M 

951 
393 

303  [Curlew  

T' 

S     B     M 

366 

304  [Curry  

T 

S     R     R 

828 

305  [Cynthiana  

Harrison 

T 

&  N     R     R 

700 

306  [Cyrus,   W.  Va  

AT 

&  W    R     R 

569 

307  [Dalton  

Hopkins  

U. 

S.    B.    M  

438 

ELEVATIONS  ABOVE  SEA 
Elevation  Aoove  Sea   of  Points  in  Kentucky-Continued. 


665 


No. 

J 

309  | 
310  | 
311 
312 
313  | 
314 
315 
316 
317 
318 
319 
320 
321 
322 
323 
324 
325 
326 
327 
328 
329 
330 
331 
332 
333 
334 
335 
336 
337 
338 
339 
340 
341 
342 
343 
344 
345 
846 
347 
348 
349 
350 
351 
352 
353 
354 
355 
356 
357 
358 
SF;Q 

Place 

County 

Station 

2c 

<U  0 

£ 

494 
965 
989 
461 
429 
436 
542 
460 
1,036 
683 
365 
397 
728 
711 
1,220 
408 
669 
629 
500 
369 
478 
761 
424 
424 
457 
928 
644 
882 
1,148 
1,017 
508 
398 
599 
1,296 
949 
547 
748 
467 
989 
711 
424 
593 
840 
649 
892 
873 
465 
612 
422 
1.159 
322 
956 

Daniel   Boone  
Danville 

TJ.   S.  B.   M 

Boyle           

Q      *    P     R,    R. 

Danville  C    H 

Boyle 

TT,     S.     R,     M.                        , 

Butler 

TT      S      R      M 

Ohio  

T      r.      R      R 

Hopkins  
Campbell    . 

TT.     S      PS      M 

0.    *.    0,    R      R, 

Ohio 

T.     <~!.     R,     R. 

Carter-Lewis... 
Logan  

(~V    &    O.    R.    R 

Deerlick 

U.    S.    B.    M  

DeKoven  

Union  
Daviess  

TJ-.   S.  B.  M.    R.  R.   Station^.. 
U.    S.    B.    M.™  

N.  &  W.  R.  R. 

r 

Knott  
Letcher 

U.    S,    B     Mt          ,             ,     ,    

Democrat  
Dempster  Junction 

U     S     B     M 

Breckinridge.... 
Carter  

L.    H.    &    StT    T,.    R,    R.  „._.  

IT.  a.  R.  M. 

. 

Johnson  
Muhlenberg  
Webster  
Daviess  

Depoy  
Derby  
Dermont  
Devon,  W.  Va  
Dexter  
Diamond  Springs 

TT.    S     R     M 

U.    S.    B.    M  
U.    S.    B.    M  
N     &  W     R    R 

Galloway  

N.   C.   &  St.   L.   R.   R  
U.    S.    B.    M  

Henderson  
Boone  
Webster  
Fayette 

U.    S.    B.    M  

Q.   &  C.  R.   R.. 

Dixon  

U.   S.   B.   M.   at  C.   H  
Q.  &  C.   R,   R.  ,_     

Letcher  
Pike  

U.    S.    B.    M  

Dorton  

U.    S.    B.    M  „  
C.    &  O     R.    R.    . 

Muhlenberg  
Jefferson  
Knott  

U.    S.    B.    M  .,      _„. 

L.    S,    R.    R  ....          .... 

U     S     B,    M  ....  , 



Q     &  f-     R.    R. 

Caldwell 

TJ     S     B     M,                       

L     &  E.    R.    R.       _ 

Dunbar  „  
Duncannon  
Dundee  

Butler  

U     S     B     M 

L.   &  N.   R.    R  

Powell  
Ohio  
Muhlenberg  

U.  S.  B.  M.  L.  &  E.  Station- 
U     S     B     M 

Dundee...     
Dunmor  

U     S     B     M 

U.    S.    B.    M  

Dwale  

Floyd  
Breathitt  
Crittenden  

TJ     S     B     M 

U.    S.    B.    M.    .  _  

TJ     S     B     M                      

L    &  N     R.   R.    ~  

TJ     S     B     M 

Earles  

TJ     s     B     M                 

East   Bernstadt  

L    &  N    R    R                      

Ballard  
Owen  

I      C     R.    R  

Finst  TOae-le  

U.   S.   B.   M  

566 


OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 


Elevation  Above  Sea   of  Points  in   Kentucky— Continued. 


No. 

Place 

County 

Station 

il 

Hs 

360 
361 

s 

364 
365 
366 
367 

368 

370 
371 
372 
373 

33S 
376 
377 
378 
379 
380 
381 
382 

m 

£ 

386 
387 
388 
389 
390 
391 
392 
393 
394 
395 
396 
397 

399 
400 
401 
402 
403 
404 
405 
406 
407 
408 
409 
410 
411 
412 

East  Louisville  
East  Point  
East  View  
Eastwood  
Ebenezer  
Eddyville 

Jefferson  
Johnson  
Hardin 

L.    &  N.   R.   R  
C.   &  O.   R.   R  
I    C    R    R 

460 
627 
761 
652 
821 
436 
660 
884 
532 
627 
497 
1,064 
840 
683 
746 
841 
662 
790 
773 
602 
&>5 
453 
1,051 
720 
£95 

seo 

922 
518 
4f.6 
458 
404 
464 
831 
i.685 

eei 
es2 

£05 
1,181 
907 
1,261 
1,172 
668 
441 
903 
992 
1,133 
474 
715 
727 
460 
364 
423 
530 

Jefferson  
Mercer  
Lyon  

U.    S.    B.    M.    L.   &  N.    Station 
U.    S.    B.    M  
I.  C.  R.  R 

Edgar 

U     S     B     M 

Edjouett  
Edwards 

Perry  _ 

L.   &  E.  R.  R  
L     &  N     R     R 

Ekron  „  - 
Elba 

Meade 

L.    H.   &  St.   L.   R.   R  _  
U     S     B     M 

Elic  .„  
Elihu  „  
Elizabethtown  
Elkatawa  „  

Elk  Chester 

Knott  
Pulaski  
Hardin  
Breathitt  

U.   S.   B.   M.   near  P.   O  
Q     &   C.    R.    R. 

L.    &  N.    R.   R  
U.   S.    B.   M.   L.   &  E.    Station.. 
U     S     B     M 

Elkhorn  
Elkhorn  City 

Franklin  
Pike 

U.   S.   B.   M.   R.   R.   Station  
C.    &   O.    R.    R.                    .     ....  . 

Elkin 

Clark 

L     &  N     R     R 

Elkton 

Todd  
Grant  

Ohio 

E     &   G     R     R 

Elliston 

L.    &  N.    R.    R  
I.    C.    R.    R 

Elm  Lick  

Elmrock.  _ 
Elmville  
Elmwood  .. 

Knott  i.  
Franklin  
Webster 

U     S     B     M 

U.    S.    B.    M  
U     S.    B.    M  _  

Elva_  
Eminence  

Marshall  

N.   C.  &  St.  L.  R.  R  
L.   &  N     R.   R.._  ~  -  

Empire  .  _ 

U     S.    B.    M  _  -  

English  
Ennis  
Enola  Ferry 

Carroll  

TJ.    &  N.   R.    R  
U.    S.    B.    M...  .. 

Butler 

U     S     B     M 

Enon 

Caldwell  
Carter  
Letcher 

U     S     B     M 

Enterprise  
Eolia 

C.    &   O.    R.    R  

U.    R.    B.    M  

Epley's  

Logan  

L.    &  N.    R.   R.     .  . 

Era 

17.   8.  B.  If 

Erlanger  

Q     &   C     R     R 

Ermine 

Letcher  

U     S     B     M 

Escondida  
Estill  Furnace 

L     &  N    R     R 

Estill  
Pulaski  

Eubank  
Euclid 

Q.    &  C.    R.    R  
U     S     B     M 

Euterpe  
Ewing 

Henderson  
Fleming  

U.    S.    B.    M  
L     &  N     R     R 

Ewington  
Excelsior  
Fairdale  
Fair-field  
Fair  Grounds 

C     &   O.    R.    R  

Bell  
Jefferson  
Nelson  

U.    S.   B.   M.  at  Coal  Mines  
U.    S.    B.    M  _  
U.    S.    B.    M  
U     S     B     M                              -      - 

Faith 

McLean  
Hancock  
Grayson  
Pendleton  

U     S     B     M 

Falcon  
Falls  of  Rough  
Falmouth  

L.  H.  &  St.  L.  R.  R  
L.  H.    &  St.   L.   R.   R  
L.    &  N.    R.    R  

ELEVATIONS  ABOVE  SEA 
Elevation  Above  Sea  of  Points  in   Kentucky    Continued. 


667 


No. 

Place 

County 

Station 

Il 

«3 

414 
415 
416 
417 
418 
419 
420 
421 
422 
423 
424 
425 
426 
427 
428 
429 
430 
431 
432 
433 
434 
435 
436 
437 
438 
439 
440 
441 
442 
443 
444 
445 
446 
447 
448 
449 
450 
451 
452 
453 
454 
455 
456 
457 
458 
459 
460 
461 
462 
463 
464 
465 

Fariston....  _  

Laurel  

L.    &    N.    R      R 

1.115 
«9 
668 
G80 
890 
858 
837 
938 
1,175 
735 
322 
667 
711 
679 
562 
SEO 
S21 
9S6 
496 
1,300 
935 
356 
419 
1,136 
623 
692 
360 
476 
807 
1,031 
1,036 
578 
322 
852 
499 
867 
650 
470 
612 
691 
404 
422 
526 
644 
641 
874 
715 
670 
367 
394 
646 
644 
691 

Farmers  

Rowan  „  

U.    S.    B.    M. 
C.    &   O.    R.    R. 

Farmersville    „ 

Caldwell  __ 
Boyle  
Woodford  

U.    S.    B.    M 

B.   M.   on  natural  rock  
TT.    S.    R.    M 

Faywood  
Fed     .. 

Floyd  

U.    S.    B     M 

Fenwick  

Fayette    . 

U.   S.  B.  M.  L.  &  E.  Station- 
L.    &   N.    R.    R, 

IFerndale  
Field 

Bell  

Shelby  
Ballard  
Powell  
Lee 

U.  S.  B.  M.  R.  R.  Station  
I     C     R     R 

Fillmore  

Filson  _  
Fincastle 

U.  S.  B.  M.    L.  &  E.  Station.- 
U.  S.  B.  M.    L.  &  E.  Station 
L.    &   N      R     R 

Finchville  

Shelby  

Fisherville  

Jefferson  

U     S      B     M 

Flanagan  _.  ..    _ 

Clark  

L     &  N     R     R 

Flat  Gap  

Johnson  
Knox  

TT.    S.    R.    M  

Flat  Lick  

T,     *•   N     R      R 

Flat  Rock  _    .. 

Caldwell  
McCreary  

U.    S.    B.    M.     . 

Flat  Rock  
Florence  

Q.    A.   H.    R     R  

Boone 

TT     S      R     AT 

Florence  „_  

McCracken  
Union  

T.     f!_     RT     R. 

Flournoy 

TT      fi      R      M 

Flnyfls 

Pulaski 

Q      A-    C     R      R 

Ford  

Clark  
Pike 

T,,    &.    TC.    R     R      . 

Ford  Branch  

TT.    S      R      M 

Ford's  Ferry  

Crittenden  

TT      S      R      M 

Fordsville     . 

Ohio.  .. 

T      O      R      R 

Forkland  

Boyle  
Madison  
Madison  

TT      S      R      M 

Fort  Estill  

T,      *•    NT      R      R 

Fort  Estill  Jet  
Fort  Gay,  W.  Va._ 

T,.    *    N      R,    R 

N.    &•  W,    R,    R 

Fort  Jefferson  

Ballard  _ 

T      f!      R      R 

Fort   Thomas  

Campbell 

TT.    S.     R.     M 

Foster  „. 

Bracken  

p    A-  r>    R    R 

Fox  Creek    .. 

Anderson  

U.   S.  B.   M 

Crittenden  

TT      S      R      M 

Frankfort  
Frankfort  
!  Franklin 

Franklin  
Franklin  
Simpson  

L.   W.   in  Kentucky  River  
U.   S.   B.  M.  on  P.   O  
T-      *    NT      R      R 

Fredonia  
Fredonia 

Caldwell  
Caldwell  
Caldwell  
Christian  

U.  S.  B.  M.  R.  R.  Station  

TT      S      R      M. 

TT     S      R      M 

Frost 

<"!.    *    O.     R.     R  -,„. 

Fruit  Hill 

Christian  

TT.     g,    R      M 

Fryer  

Caldwell  
Johnson  

TT,     f?,     R,     M-           

Fuget        .          

U.    S     B.    M  

P,     fr    O.     R,     R, 

U     ,S     P.    M. 

Futrell 

Trigs  

T,     P.     R,     R  ..  

Allen 

TJ.    P     P,    M. 

Gaithers 

TTarrHn 

T,,    &    M,    R,     R, 

Gallun  .      'Lawrence  

U.    S.    B.    M..  . 

568       OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

Elevation  Above  Sea   of  Points   in   Kentucky— Continued. 


No. 

Place 

County 

Station 

Ej 

H^ 

466 
467 
468 
469 
470 
471 
472 
473 
474 
475 
476 
477 
478 
479 
480 
481 
482 
483 
484 
485 
486 
487 
488 
489 
490 
491 
492 
493 
494 
495 
496 
497 
498 
499 
500 
501 
502 
503 
504 
505 
506 
507 

508 
509 
510 
511 
512 
513 
514 
515 
516 

Gap  in  Knob  
Garfield  

Bullitt  
Breckinridge 
Harrison  
Lewis  

U.    S.    B.    M  
L.  H.  &  St.  L.  R.  R. 

493 
780 
715 
526 
819 
387 
590 
866 
509 
458 
855 
431 
560 
392 
780 
623 
971 
784 
542 
640 
433 
593 
543 
358 
429 
699 
495 
409 
437 
671 
484 
351 
896 
1,096 
533 
685 
658 
424 
936 
361 
374 

398 
390 
399 
402 
405 
407 
419 
431 
436 

453 

Garnett  .... 

L     &  N     R     R 

Garrison  
Gates 

C.    &   O.    R.    R  
C    &  O    R    R 

Geneva  
George's  Creek  
Georgetown  . 

Henderson 

U     S     B     M 

Lawrence  
Scott  

C.   &  O.   R.   R  

U     S     B     M. 

Gest 

Henry 

U     S     B     M 

Gethsemane  
Gilberts  Creek  
Gilbertsville 

Nelson  _  
Lincoln  
Marshall 

L.   &  N.    R.    R  
U.    S.    B.    M  

I     C     R     R 

Muhlenberg  
Marshall  
Barren 

U     S     B     M 

Glade  __ 

N    C     &  St     L     R     R 

n     Tt     rt 

Glasgow  Junction.... 

Barren  T,    *•  TJ    R    "R 

Clark  
Powell 

L    &  E    R    R 

tf.  S.  B.  M.  L.  &  E.  Station.... 
L     &  N     R     R 

Glencoe  

Gallatin  
Hardin 

Glendale 

L     &  N    R     R 

Breckinridge.... 

L     H     &  St     L     R     R 

Glen  Hayes,  W.  Va. 
Glenn 

N.    &  W.    R.    R  _ 

C    &  O    R    R 

Golds  

Webster  .  .. 

U     S     B     M. 

Muhlenberg  
Oldham  
Christian  
Muhlenberg  
Livingston  
Carter  
Owen 

I    C     R    R 

Goshen  
Gracey  . 

U.    S.    B.    M  
I     C     R     R 

Graham  Station  
Grand  Rivers  . 

U.    S.    B.    M  
I.    C.    R.    R. 

Grant 

C     &   O     R     R 

Gratz 

U.    S.    B.    M  
I    C     R    R 

Gravel  Switch  
Gravel   Switch  
Gray  
Grays  Branch 

Livingston  

Marion    

L     &  N     R     R 

Knox  
Greenup  

L.   &  N.   R.   R  
C     &   O     R     R 

Grayson  
Grayson  Springs  
Green  Castle  
Greendale  
Green  River  
Green  River  
Green  River  

Green  River  

Carter  
Grayson  
Warren  
Fayette  

U.   S.   B.   M.    C.  H..._  
I.    C.    R     R 

U.    S.    B.    M  
U.    S.    B.    M  
Lock  1,    top  of  wall 

Edmonson  

Lock  2,   top  of  wall  
L.    W.    in  Green  river  at 
Dennison's   Ferry  
Lock  3,    top   of  wall  
L.   W.    in  Green  River  
L.   W.   Cub  Run  Creek  
Lock   4,    top   of   wall  _  
L.  W.  Blue  Springs  Creek  
Lock  5,    top   of  wall...,  „. 
Lock  6,    top  of  wall  
L.    W.    at   Rio  
L.  W.  mouth  of  Little  Bar- 
ren River  „  

Green  River  _  
Green  River  
|Green  River  
Green  River  
Green  River  
Green  River  
Green  River  
Green  River  _ 

Hart  
Hart  
Butler  
Hart.  
Butler-Warrer 
Edmonson  
Hart  
Green  

ELEVATIONS  ABOVE  SEA 


569 


Elevation  Above  Sea  of  Points  in  Kentucky-Continued. 


No. 

Place 

County 

Station 

li 

517 
518 
519 
520 
521 
522 
523 
524 
525 
526 
527 
528 
529 
530 
531 
532 
533 
534 
535 
536 
537 
538 
539 
540 
541 
542 
543 
54-1 
545 
546 
547 
548 
549 
550 
551 
552 
553 
554 
555 
556 
557 
558 
559 
560 
561 
562 
563 
564 
565 

566 
567 
568 

Green  River  
Green   River  
Green  River  
Green  River  
Green  River  
Greensburgr  „  

Green  
Green  
Taylor  
Taylor  
Adair  
Green  . 

L.   W.   Greensburg1  
L.    W.    Bluff   Boone  Station.... 
L.   W.    at   Atchley's  Mill  
L.   W.    Griffith's  Spring-  
L.  W.  at  Plum  Point  _ 

616 
531 
548 
590 
634 
683 
478 
640 
538 
1,203 
899 
387 
454 
694 
386 
878 
671 
617 
559 
751 
534 
659 
732 
993 
412 
442 
667 
661 
885 
397 
676 
432 
381 
792 
339 
424 
374 
700 
634 
744 
1,197 
720 
666 
1,009 
871 
900 
410 
434 

972 
612 
706 
367 

Greenup  

Greenup  
Greenup  
Muhlenberg"  
McCreary  
Breathitt  
Center-Union.. 

1  L    W    in  Ohio  River 

Greenup  

CMprk'js     OffifP 

Greenville  

U     S     B     M    C     H 

Greenwood  

Q     &  C     R     R 

Grigsby  
Grove     .. 

TT      S      R      M 

Guffie  

TT      S      R      M 

Gulnore  
Gum  Grove  

Pike 

U     S     B     M 

Union  
Rockcastle 

U     S     B     M 

Gum    Sulphur  

T,     &  N     R     R 

Guston   

Meade  
Todd 

L    H    &  St    L    R     R 

Guthrie  

L,     &  N     R     R 

Habit  

Daviess 

U     S     B     M 

Haddix  

Breathitt  
Todd 

L     &  E     R     R 

Hadensville  
Hadley 

L     &  N     R     R. 

U     S     B     M 

Halifax  _  

Allen  
Lincoln  
Hopkins 

Hall's  Gap 

L     &  N.   R.   R.            

Hamby  Station 

U     S     B     M 

Hamilton  
Hamlak 

Ohio  

I.    C.    R.    R  

Pike 

C     &  O     R     R 

U     S     B     M 

Handshoe  

Knott 

U     S     B     M                             . 

Handyville 

Daviess  
Hardin  

U     P     B     M 

I     C     R     R 

Hanson  _  

U     S     B.    M.                    ...    

Hopkins  
Shleby  
Crittenden  
Marshall  
Union  
Breckinridge.. 
Shelby 

U     S     B     M 

Harbison  
Hardesty  
Hardin  
Harding:  
Hardinsburg-  
Hardinsville 

U.    S.   B.   M.    R.   R.    Station.. 

N.  C.  &  St.   L.  R.   R  
U.  S.  B.  M.    R.  R.  Station  
L.   H.  &  St.  L.  R.  R  
L,     &  N.    R.   R  

Hardy 

Pike 

Harlan  
Harned 

Harlan  
Breckinridge.. 

U    S    B    M    C    H 

L.   H.   &  St.   L.   R.   R  
C     &  O     R.    R.      ..- 

Harris  
tfarrodsburg  
Harrodsburgr   Jet  
Harrod's  Creek  
Hartford  
Hartley 

Madison  
Mercer  
Mercer  

L,     &  N     R     R 

U.   S.  B.  M.    C.  H  
Q.   &  C.   R.    R  

Weather   Bureau               - 

Ohio  
Pike 

U.  S.   B.  M  _  
U.  S.  B.  M.  L.  W.  in  Beaver 
Creek    _ 

Harvleland 

Franklin  
Shelby  
Hancock  

U.    S.    B.    M     „..  

Hatton  
Hawesville  

U.  S.  B.  M.    R.  R.  Station  
L.  H.  &  St.  L.  R.  R  

570       OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

Elevation  Above  Sea  of  Points  in  Kentucky— Continued. 


No.                 Place 

County 

Station 

U 

H- 

569   Hawesville  
570  1  Hawkins 

Hancock  
Christian  

B. 

U. 
L. 
U. 
U. 
N. 
L. 
U. 
I. 
U. 
B. 

Q 

U. 
U. 
L. 
C. 
L.. 
L,. 
L. 
U. 
U. 

&. 
u. 

N. 
U. 
tl. 

X. 

1. 
L. 

Q. 
U. 
I. 
U. 

u. 
u. 
Q. 

TT. 

C. 

M.   on  Court  House  
S     B     M 

423 
759 
823 
476 
873 
572 
843 
468 
423 
421 
877 
976 
924 
400 
869 
1,135 
731 
317 
432 
371 
401 
806 
942 
570 
428 
257 
306 
415 
445 
762 
499 
378 
562 
939 
1,032 
943 
733 
613 
400 
805 
872 
374 
926 
444 
557 
541 
544 
476 
603 
427 
458 
523 
420 

571  1  Hay  den 

&  N     R     R 

572  IHaynesville  
573  1  Hazard 

Ohio 

S     B     M 

Perry  

Galloway 

•S     B     M 

574    Hazel  

C     &  St     L.   R.   R  

575   Hazle  Patch  
576  IHearin 

&  N     R     R 

S     B     M 

577  1  Heath 

McCracken  
Henderson  
Boone  
Clark 

C     R      R 

578  Hebbardsville 

S     B     M                              

579   Hebron  
580  Hedges           ..    ._  

M.   on  Clove's  Store  
&   O     R     R.                  

581   Hedgeville                    Rnvip 

S     B     M 

582   Heflin 

Ohio 

S     B     M 

583    Helena 

Mason. 

&  N     R     R 

584  [Hellier  -  
585  |Hemp  Ridge  
586  [Henderson..  
587  [Henderson  
588  |  Henshaw  
589  1  Herman 

Pike  
Shelby  
Henderson  
Henderson  
Union  

&  0.   R.   R  
S.    R.    R  
W.  in  Ohio  River..  
&  N.    R.    R  -  
S.  B.  M.  R.  R.  Station  
S     B     M 

590  IHerndon 

Scott 

R     R 

591   Hesler                     

Owen 

S     B.    M  

592    Hewlett,  W.  Va  
593  IHewletts 

&  W    R    R.                    

S     B     M 

594  |  Hickman  
595  1  Hickman 

Fulton  

W.   in  Mississippi  River..... 
C     &   St     L     R.            

596  |  Hickory  Grove  
597  [Higginsport  
598  [High  Bridge 

Graves  
Bracken  

C.    R.    R  -  
W    in  Ohio  River  

&  C     R     R                       

599  |High  Grove  
600  [Highland  
601  [Hikes  Point 

Nelson  
Union  

S.    B.    M  „  

S     B     M 

602   Hillenmeyer  

Fayette  
Knott 

S     B.    M  

S    B    M.  on  C.  H.   

604   Hinton 

Scott 

&  C     R     R                          

605  |  Hippo  _  
606  [Hitchins 

Floyd  

S     B.    M  
&   O     R     R.            —     

607  [Hitesville 

608  [Holland 

Allen  
Knott 

609  IHollibush 

£ 

L. 
U. 
E. 
L. 
U. 
I. 
L,. 
I. 
L.. 
E. 
TT 

S     B     M                      - 

610  |  Holt  _  
611  |  Hombre  _.  
612  [Hoods 

Breckinridge... 
Perry  

Crittenden  

H.   &  St.   L.   R.   R  
&  E.   R.   R  
S     B     M                       .._   

613  IHopewell 

K     R     R                                

614  |  Hopkins  ville  

Christian  
Caldwell 

&  N.   R.    R  
S     B     M                    

616  |  Horse   Branch  
617  [Horse  Cave  
618  |  Hor  ton  
619  |Huber  
620  JHunnewell  
621    Huntsville  

Ohio 

Hart  
Ohio  
Bullitt  
Greenup  
Butler  

&  N.   R.    R  
&  N.   R.    R  - 
S     B     M 

ELEVATIONS  ABOVE  SEA 


571 


Elevation  Above  Sea  of  Points  in   Kentucky    Continued. 


No. 

Place 

County 

Station 

ll 

622 
623 
624 
625 
626 
627 
628 
629 
630 
631 
632 
633 
634 
635 
636 
637 
638 
639 
640 
641 
642 
643 
644 
645 
646 
647 
648 
649 
650 
651 
652 
653 
654 
655 
656 
657 
658 
659 
660  | 
661  | 
662 
663  | 
664  j 
665 
666 
667 
668 
669 
670  | 
671  | 
672  ] 
673 
674 

Hyattsville  

Garrard  
Hopkins 

TT     S      R     M 

u. 

412 
752 
746 
638 
352 
504 
571 
577 
417 
686 
1,107 
1,315 
657 
895 
1,051 
790 
943 
711 
937 
1,627 
880 
886 
791 
1,407 
693 
898 
652 
545 
404 
718 
982 
581 
715 
681 
403 
507 
832 
589 
830 
413 
430 
443 
446 
470 
484 
492 
603 
533 
538 
548 
671 
618 

Ilsley  

I     P      R     R 

Independence  

Kenton  

L.    &   N.    R.    R. 

Indian  Fields  
Inez  

Clark  
Martin 

U.  S.   B.   M.    L.   &  E.  Station 
TT      S      R      M 

lola,  

Marshall  
Crittenden  
Estill  
Breckinridge... 
McLean  

N     C     &  St     L    R    R 

Irma*  

Irvine  
Irvington  
Island  _  
Island  Creek  

L.   W.   in  Kentucky  River  
T,,    W,    &•   fU.    T,.    R,    R, 

U,     S,    R.    M, 

Pike  

O     &•    O      R      R 

Isom  _ 

Letcher               'u     p     T?     M 

Ivan  

Knott                   TT     s     T?     iw 

Ivel 

Flovd 

C     &  O     R     R 

Magoffin  
Russell 

Jabez  

U     S     B     M 

Jackson    . 

Breathitt  
Pike    .. 

U     S    B    M    at  C    H 

Jamboree   P.    O  

Jeffersontown.  
Jellico 

U     S     B     M 

Whitley  
Letcher  
Henry 

L     &  N     R     R 

Jenkins  

U     S     B     M 

Jericho    . 

L    &  N     R     R 

Jessamine  

Jessamine  
Franklin  
Pike    - 

Q     &  C     R     R,     . 

Jetts 

U     S     B     M, 

Jewell    

Pike 

U     S     B     M 

Fleming  
Breckinridge... 

L     &  N     R     R 

Jolly  „  
Jolly 

L.  H.  &  St.  L.  R.  R.__  
U     S     B     M 

Jordan  _  

Fulton  
Shelby  
Boyle 

M    &  O    R     R  

L     S     R     R 

Q    &  C    R    R 

Kavanaugh  
Keller 

U     S     B     M 

Harrison  
Christian 

L     &  N     R     R 

Kelly 

L     &    N     R     R 

Kelsey  
Kennebec.  

Caldwell  
Franklin  
Scott  

U    S    B    M 

U.    S.   B.   M.   R.   R.   Station  
L     S     R     R 

Kenova,   W.  Va  
Kenton  Heights 

N    &  W    R    R 

Q     &  C.   R.   R  ~. 

Kentucky    River  
Kentucky  River  

Carroll  

L.  W.  at  Carrollton  
L    W    at  Pool  1                 

Owen 

L.   W.   at  Pool  2...    _     - 

Franklin  
Franklin  
Anderson  
Jessamine  
Jessamine  
Fayette  
Clark  
Clark  
Estill 

L    W    at  Pool  3      

Kentucky  River  
Kentucky  River  
Kentucky  River  
Kentucky  River  
Kentucky  River  
Kentucky  River  
Kentucky  River  
Kentucky  River  _ 
Kentucky  River  

L.    W.    at   Frankfort  
L.   W.   at  Tyrone  
L.   W.   at  High  Bridge  
L.  W.  at  Hlckman  Bridge_  
L.  W.   at  Clay's  Ferry.  —  
L.   W.   at  Boonesboro  
L.  W.  at  mouth  of  Red  River 
L    W.   at  Irvine  

Lee  

L.   W.   at  Beattyville..  

572       OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

Elevation  Above  Sea   of  Points  in  Kentucky— Continued. 


No. 

Place 

County 

Station 

ll 

ET 

675 
676 
677 
678 
679 
680 
681 
682 
683 
684 
685 
686 
687 
688 
689 
690 
691 
692 

694 
695 
696 
697 

699 
700 
701 
702 
703 
704 
705 
706 
707 
708 
709 
710 
711 
712 
713 
714 
715 
716 
717 
718 
719 
720 
721 
722 
723 
724 
725 
726 
727 

Kermit,  W.  Va  
Kevil  

Ballard  
Pike 

N.    &   W.    R.    R  
I     C     R     R 

629 
439 
683 
674 
634 
1,168 
862 
689 
476 
852 
440 
595 
798 
879 
900 
559 
1,257 
805 
436 
695 
841 
743 
315 
1,032 
905 
673 
537 
788 
1,116 
754 
889 
429 
1,045 
635 

1,006 
598 
474 
629 
403 
496 
466 

393 
957 
432 

445 
453 
512 
536 
544 
566 
577 

Kewanee  
Keyser  

U     S     B     M 

Carter 

U     S     B     M 

Kilgore  
Kings  Mountain 

U     S     B     M 

Q     &  C     R     R 

Kinkaid  

Kirk 

Scott  

Q     &  C     R     R.            ~      

Breckinridge... 
Todd  
Mercer  
Hopkins  

Kirkmansville  
Kirkwood  
Kirkwood  Springs... 
Kise 

U.    S.    B.    M  — 
U.    S.    B.    M  
U     S.    B.    M  _  

C     &  O     R     R 

Kiserton  

Bourbon  
Knott 

L     &  N     R     R 

Kite 

U     S     B     M 

Knob  Lick 

L    &  N    R    R 

Knottsville  

Daviess 

U     S     B     M 

Kona 

Letcher 

L     &  E     R     R 

Krypton  
Kuttawa  
Lackey  
Lagrange  _.. 
Lair  
Laketon 

Perry  

L     &  E     R     R.            

Lyon  

I     C     R     R 

Floyd  
Oldham  
Harrison  
Carlisle 

U.    S.    B.    M  
L.   &  N.    R.   R  
L     &  N.    R.   R  

M    &  O     R     R 

U     S     B     M 

Langford  _  

Rockcastle  

L     &  N     R.    R  

U     S     B     M 

Lawrenceburg  
Layman  P.  O  
Lebanon  

Anderson  
Harlan  
Marion  

U.  S.  B.  M.    C.  H  
U.    S.    B.    M  
L.    &  N.   R.   R  
U     S     B     M 

Lebanon  Junction.... 
Leburn.  
Leitchfleld  
L.  &  E.  Junction  — 
L  &  E.  Tunnel  

Bullitt  
Knott 

L.   &  N.    R.    R  

U     S     B     M 

Grayson  
Clark  
Clark  

I.    C.    R.    R  
U.   S.  B.   M.   L  &  E.   Station.... 
L.   &  E.   R.   R  
C     &   O     R     R 

Levias 

Crittenden  -.. 
Pendleton  

Levingood  

L.    &  N.   R.   R  

L     &  N     R     R 

Logan  

U     S     B     M 

Lewisburg  _. 

L     &  N     R     R 

L     W     in    Ohio   River 

Hancock  
Fayette  
Kenton  
Kenton  
Kenton  
Pendleton  
Pendleton  
Robertson  
Nicholas  
Nicholas  

U     S     B     M 

Lexington  
Licking  River  
Licking  River  
Licking  River  
Licking  River  
Licking  River  
Licking  River  
Licking  River  
Licking  River  

U.    S.    B.    M  
L.  W.   at  Covington  
L.   W.    at  De  Coursey  
L.   W.    at  Visalia  
L.  "W".  at  mouth  of  South  Fork 
L.  W.  at  mouth  of  North  Fork 
L.   W.   at   Claysville  
L.  W.   at  Lower  Blue  Lick  
L.  W.  at  mouth  of  Big  Fleming 

ELEVATIONS  ABOVE  SEA 
Elevation  Above  Sea  of  Point*  in  Kentucky-Continued. 


573 


No. 

Place 

County 

Station 

11 

H" 

728 

729 
730 
731 
732 
733 
734 
735 
736 
737 

738 
739 
740 
741 
742 
743 
744 
745 
746 
747 
748 
749 
750 
751 
752 
753 
754 
755 
756 
757 
758 
759 
760 
761 
762 
763 
764 
765 
766 
767 
768 
769 
770 
771 
772 
773 
774 
775 
776 
777 
778 

Licking  River  
Licking  River  

Nicholas  
Bath 

L.    W.    at   mouth   of   Upper 
Blue  Lio.k  

692 
597 
623 
644 
676 
733 
742 
766 
776 

806 
820 
840 
792 
1,072 
631 
410 

468 
401 
422 
370 
858 
450 
546 
485 
613 
471 
681 
1,209 
618 
417 
1,019 
605 
630 
446 
968 
711 
751 
526 
687 
386 
626 
982 
799 
636 
456 
661 
1,045 
614 
832 
878 

L.  W.  at  mouth  of  Flat  Creek 
L.  W.  at  mouth  of  Slate  Creek 
L.  W.  at  mouth  of  Salt  Creek 
L.  W.  at  mouth  of  Beaver  
L.  W.  at  mouth  of  Elk  Fork.. 
L.    W.    at  West  Liberty  
L.  W.  at  mouth  of  White  Oak 
L.  W.  at  mouth  at  Rockhouse 
L.   W.   at  mouth  of  John- 
son's   Fork    

Licking  River__  _ 
Licking  River  
Licking  River  
Licking  River  —  
Licking  River  
Licking  River 

Bath_  
Bath™  
Bath  
Morgan  
Morgan  
Morgan 

Licking  River  
Licking  River  

Licking  River  
Licking  River  
Lillian  _  

Morgan  
Magoffin  

Magoffin  —  
Magoffin  
Perry 

L.  W.  at  mouth  of  Middle  Fk. 
L.    W.    at   Salyersville  
tT.   8.  B.  M 

Lily  

Limeville_  

Laurel  

T,     Xr  -H.    R     R 

Greenup  
Webster  

O      XT    O      R      R 

Lisman  

TT.     R      R,    M. 

Little  Cypress  
Little  Muddy  

Marshall  

T      P      R      R 

Butler  

TT      S      R      TW- 

Livermore......   

McLean  

IT.     R,     R,     M 

Livia  _  
Livingston  
Livingston  
Lockport  

McLean  

T,,    &    N     R     R, 

Crittenden  
Rockcastle  
Henry  _  

U.   S.   B.  M.    R.  R.  Station..-. 

T,.    fr    N,    ft.    ft  

TT,     R.     p,     M, 

Lockwood  _  

Boyd  

C.  &  O.  B.  R 

Lodiburg  

Breckinridge... 
Shelby 

T,      H      *    R*-      T,      R      R 

I/     &  N     R     R 

Logansport..-  

Butler  
Powell  
Laurell 

U     S     B.    M. 

Lombard  
London  
Long  

U.   S.  B.  M.    L.  &  E.  Station.. 
L    &  N    R     R 

Warren  
Meade 

TT,    R     P.    M,                  ,      

Long  Branch  

L    H    &  St.   L.   R.   R. 

Pike 

U     S     P     M 

Hardin  
Jefferson  
Jefferson  
Pike 

I.   C.    B.   B 

Long  Run  _  _. 
Longview  
Lookout  
Loretto  

U.  S.  B.  M.    L.  &  N.  Station.. 

U,    S,    B.    M,     ~,-  , 

U.   S.  B.   M 

Marion  
Breathitt  

L.   &  N.    R.    R.  .      

Lost  Creek  

U.    S.    B.    M  
L    W    in  Big  Sandy  River 

Louisa  

Lawrence  
Jefferson  
Jefferson  

1-      ft    0      R       R 

Louisville 

L     W     above  Filln  

Weather   Bureau   

Lovell 

L    &  N    R    R, 

Garrard  
Kenton 

L    &  N     R.    R.          

Q            *        <~*            R.         ft.          :                   :               :               

U     B     B     M 

Lyndon  
Lynn  Camp  

U     S     B     M 

L     ft  N     R     R 

TJ     S     B     M 

Anderson  
Henderson  

TJ     S     R.    M, 

McClain 

I.    C.    R.    R  

574 


OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 


Elevation  Above  Sea  of  Points  in  Kentucky— Continued. 


No. 

Place 

County 

Station 

Ij 

^ 

779 
780 
781 
782 
783 
784 
785 
786 
787 
788 
789 
790 
791 
792 
793 
794 
795 
796 
797 
798 
799 
800 
801 
802 
803 
804 
805 
806 
807 
808 
809 
810 
811 
812 
813 
814 
815 
816 
817 
818 
819 
820 
821 
822 
823 
824 
825 
826 
S2T 
828 
829 
830 
831 

McDonald  Ferry  

U     S     B     M,                

503 
691 
484 
656 
427 
381 
1,008 
610 
427 
593 
520 
470 
617 
899 
860 
378 
451 
525 
427 
423 
915 
1,165 
583 
981 
719 
604 
924 
557 
450 
905 
699 
1,334 
343 
498 
612 
365 
438 
986 
421 
1,208 
905 
448 
507 
1,015 
590 
446 
770 
609 
893 
533 
500 
471 
494 

McDowell  

Floyd  
Caldwell 

U     S     B     M 

McGowan 

LT     S     B     M 

McGowan  Ferry  
McHenry    .. 

U     S     B     M              ..    ,  ,   

Ohio  _  
McLean 

U     S     B     M 

McKinley 

U     S     B     M 

McKinley  

Q     &   r-     R     R,           __     

McLeod 

Logan  
Muhlenberg  
Boyd 

L     &   N     R     R 

McNary 

I     C     R     R 

McNeal 

U     S     B     M 

Macedonia. 

Christian  

U     S     B     M 

Madisonville  

U     S     B     M 

Magan     . 

Ohio 

U     S     B     M                     _ 

Mahan 

Whitley  
Pike 

L     &  N    R     R 

Ma  jpstir 

Major 

I     C     R     R                                -.    - 

Lewis  

L     W     in   Ohio   Rlvr 

Manchester    .. 

C     &   O     R.    R.    .-  

Manitou  

Hopkins  
Christian  
Garrard  

U.    S.    B.    M  

U     S     B     M 

Marcellus  
Maretburg 

U.    S.    B.    M  

L     &  N     R     R 

Marion  
Marksbury  

Crittenden  

U.  S.  B.  M.    R.  R.  Station  
U     S     B     M 

Marrowbone  

Pike  
Lawrence  

C.    &   O.    R.    R  

Marvin 

U     S     B     M 

Mason 

Q     &  C    R    R                     

Masonville 

Christian  
McCracken  

T     C     R     R 

U     S     B     M 

Masu 

L     &  E     R     R 

Matewan,  W.  Va.... 
Mattie  

Knott 

N    &  W    R    R.                  ...      . 

U     S     B     M, 

Mattingly 

Breckinridge... 
Kenton  
Boyd  
McCracken  
Ohio 

L    H    &  St    L    R    R 

Maurice 

L    &  N     R.   R  

Mavity  
Maxon    . 

U.    S.    B.    M  
I     C     R     R 

Maxwell  

U     S     B     M, 

Mayde  

Madison 

L     &  N    R     R 

Mayfleld  
Mayking 

Graves  

I     C     R     R 

L     &  E     R     R, 

Mayo  

U     S     B     M 

Maysville  
Maysville.__  .....  

L    "W"    in  Ohio  River 

C     &  n     R     R.                   

May  wood  
Meads 

L    &  N     R     R 

Boyd  

Jefferson  

C     &  O     R     R 

Meadow  Lawn  
Means  Tennel  
Meek  

U     S     B     M                              

C     &  <"»    R     R 

Johnson  

C     &   <~>     R     R               ..              ... 

Melvin  

U     S     G     P 

Memphis   Junction.. 
Mentor 

Warren  
Campbell  
Muhlenberg  
Crittenden  

L     &  N     R     R,                ..   —  . 

C.    &   O.    R.    R...~  
I.    C.    R.    R  
U.  S.  B.  M.   R.  R.  Station  

Mercer  
Mexico  

ELEVATIONS  ABOVE  SEA  675 

Elevation  Above  Sea   of  Points  in  Kentucky    Continued. 


No.                Place 

County 

Station 

ii 

832   Middlesboro  
833  JMiddletown  __ 

Bell 

U. 
U. 
U. 
U. 
U. 

I. 

L. 
L. 
L. 
U. 
U. 
L. 
U. 
U. 
U. 
L. 
L. 
Li. 

U. 
L. 
U. 
U. 
U. 

u. 

M. 

U. 

u. 
u. 

L. 

U. 

L. 
U. 
I. 
L. 
L. 
L. 
U. 
Co 
X. 

U. 

L. 

U. 

T'. 
X. 
I.. 
X. 

r. 
r. 
r. 
r. 
L. 

S.  B.  M.  at  R.  R.  Station., 
a,    R.   M, 

1,139 
722 
820 
1.035 
844 
603 
256 
270 
272 
1,006 
683 
442 
543 
926 
934 
729 
650 
964 
712 
1,120 
610 
439 
573 
451 
790 
313 
386 
435 
841 
1.121 
610 
934 
1,113 
688 
740 
767 
1,160 
904 
500 
571 
480 
702 
613 
977 
763 
637 
693 
669 
1,129 
409 
808 
420 
434 

Jefferson    

834    Midway,,,.  

Woodford  
Lincoln 

s,   R,   M.   on  P.   O. 

835   Milledgeville  
836  |Mill  Springs  

a      R      M 

Wayne  

a,    R,   M, 

837  |Millwood  

Grayson  
Fulton 

r.    R.   R 

838  |Mississippi  River_.. 
839  [Mississippi   River 

W      at    •mrkmnn 

Hickman  
Ballard  
Boyle 

840  [Mississippi  River™. 
841  [Mltchellsburg-  
842  JMonica    . 

W.  at  mouth  of  Ohio  River 

a.    R.    TVT, 

Lee 

S.   B.  M.    L.  &  E.  Station 
W.  in  Kentucky  River  
a    -R    TW, 

843  [Monterey 

Owen  
Owen 

844  [Monterey.....  „ 

845  (Monticello  
846   Montrose  „ 
847    Moore  

Wayne  
Fayette  
Anderson  
Washington  

S.  B.  M.  on  G.  H  
S.    B.   M.   L.   &  E.   Station 
a     R,   R 

848  [Mooresville    

*•    1M      R,    R 

849  [Moran's  Summit 

&•    TVT      R      R 

850  [Morehead 

Rowan  
Lincoln  

&  r>    R    H 

851  [Moreland 

s    R    -vr 

852  [Morgan 

Xr    AT       R       R 

853  [Morganfield  _.. 
854  [Morgantown  
855   Morton's  Gap  
856  [Mortonville  P.  O  
857  [Moscow 

Union  
Butler  

S.  B.  M.  at  C.   H  

a     R,   TVT, 

a,   R,   M, 

a     R     M 

Hickman  

£•  n    Ra  B, 

858   Moseleyville  
859   Motherhead  Ford  
860  [Mouthcard 

a     R     v 

Bullitt 

a     R     TIT 

Pike..._  

R     R     M, 

861  [Mt    Guthrie 

Rockcastle  
Carter  

-ft    TJ,     R.,     R 

862  [Mt     Savage 

a     B    M, 

863   Mt    Sterling 

#  o    -R    R               

864   Mt    Vernon 

Rockcastle  

«.    W      R      R, 

865    Mt.    Washington....... 
866  IMuldraugh 

Bullitt  
Meade 

a.  B,  M.         „, 

<"*.    R.    "R. 

Hard  in 

*   N     Tunnel                 ,  ,  , 

868  [Muldraugh   Hill 

Marion  

*  N    ^     P, 

869  IMullins 

Rockcastle  

ifr  N.    **.   R. 

a,   R    M,                

Hart 

Galloway  
Carter  
Nicholas 

C.   &  St.   L.   R.   R  

S.    B.    M.              --  - 

874  [Myers 

&  N    R    R  

S    B    M 

876   Natural  Bridge  
877  [Naugatuck,  W.  Va 
878  [Nazareth 

Powell.  

S.  B.  M.    L.  &  E.  Station. 
&  W    R     R              , 

Nelson 

&  N    R    F                   

879  INeal    W    Va 

&  W    R    R 

880  INeal  y 

Knott 

g    B     M 

Hopkins....  
Breathitt  
Muhlenberg  
Nelson  

S     B     M 

882  |Ned  
883  Nelson 

S.   B.   M.  at  P.  0  
S     B     M 

S84    Nelsonville  

&  N.   R.   R  - 

576 


OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 


Elevation  Above  Sea   of  Points  in  Kentucky— Continued. 


No.                 Place 
1 

County 

Station 

a!    • 

«! 

H** 

885 
886 
887 
888 
889 
890 
891 
892 

894' 

£ 

897 
898 

900 
901 
902 
903 
904 
905 
906 
907 
908 

910 
911 
912 
913 
914 
915 
916 
917 
918 
919 
920 
921 
922 
923 
924 
925 
926 
927 
928 
929 
930 
931 
932 
933 
934 
935 
936 
937 

Neon  

Letcher  

L.   &  E.   R.   R  
L     S     R     R 

1,274 
770 
444 
488 
382 
536 
496 
477 
947 
993 
622 
792 
651 
660 
812 
539 
934 
394 
408 
1,122 
400 
375 
791 
531 
458 
348 
321 
765 
272 
286 
301 
302 
306 
308 
317 
328 
330 
333 
335 
340 
346 
356 
386 
399 
401 
408 
411 
413 
431 
444 
448 
451 
464 

New  Haven  

Nelson  

L.   &  N.   R.    R  
L     &  N    R     R 

Newman  

Daviess  
Campbell  
Campbell 

U.    S.    B.    M  _  
C     &   O     R     R 

New  Richmond  

C     &  O     R     R 

Henderson...  
Jessamine  

Nicholasville  
Nicholasville  
N'ppa 

B.    M.    in  Court  House  
U     S     B     M 

U     S     G     S 

Nopel  
Nolan,  W.  Va  

Breathitt  

U.    S.    B.    M  _  
N.  &  W.  R.  R  -  

Nolin 

Hardin  
Woodford 

L.    &  N.   R.   R  __ 

Nonesuch  

IVorm^) 

U     S     B     M 

Boyd  
Boyle 

C.    &   O.    R.    R.  _  ..  „  

North  Fork 

L     &  N.   R.    R.            

North   Siding 

L     &  N    R     R. 

No  r  to  n  v  ille  

Hopkins  
Pulaski 

U.    S.    B.    M.  

Q.    &  C.    R.    R. 

McLeah 

U     S     B     M 

Nunns  
Oaksdale 

Crittenden  
Breathitt  

U.   S.   B.   M    R.   R.    Station  

U.  S.  B.  M.  L.  &  E.   Station.. 
L    &  N    R     R 

Oak  Ridge  
Oaks 

Daviess  
McCracken 

I     C     R     R 

N    C.   &  St.   L.   R.   R.       _    

Oakton 

M.   &  O    R    R 

O'Bannon 

Jefferson  

U.    S.    B.    M.    . 

Ohio  River 

L     W     at  mouth               

Ohio  River.  
Ohio  River  
Ohio  River  
Ohio  River  
Ohio  River  
Ohio  River  
Ohio  River  
Ohio  River  

McCracken  

L.    W.    at  Paducah  
L.    W.    at    Shawneetown  
L     W     at   Raleigh 

Union  

Henderson  
Daviess  

L.    W.    at  Uniontown  
L.    W.    at   Mt.    Vernon.  
L.  W.  at  Henderson  

TJ,  "\y.  a,t  Rockport  «.  
Li     "W"     at   Lewisport 

Ohio  River 

L.    W.    at    Troy    ..      .  _..  

Breckinridge... 
Meade  
Meade  

Li.    W.    at    Cloverport  
L.  W.   at  Concordia  
L.    W.    at  Brandenburg  
L     W    at  Louisville 

Ohio   River  
Ohio   River  
Ohio   River 

L.   W.   at  Bethlehem.  
L.  W.  at  Madison  
L.  W.  at  Vevay  
L.    W.    at   Warsaw  
L.   W.    at  Carrollton.  
L.  W.  at  Cincinnati  
L.  W.   at  Augusta  
L.   W.   at  Maysville  

Ohio   River  
Ohio   River 

Ohio   River  
Ohio   River  
Ohio   River 

Gallatin  
Carroll  

Ohio   River  
Ohio  River  _.. 
Ohio  River 

Bracken  

L.  W    at  Manchester           

Ohio  River  

Lewis  

L.  W.  at  Quincy  

ELEVATIONS  ABOVE  SEA 


577 


Elevation  Above  Sea  of  Point*  in  Kentucky— Continued. 


No.  1              Place 
1 

County 

Station 

=! 

478 
498 
610 
892 

938  |Ohio    River  

939  |0hio   River  
940  |Oil   City  

Boyd  

L.  W.  at  Catlettsburg:  
O     R.    R 

941  |Oil   Springs  

Johnson  

TJ.  a.  B,  M  

942  |Oil  Valley  
943  |O.  &  K.   Junction  ... 
944  (Oklahoma  

Wayne  
Breathitt  
Daviess  
Jefferson  
Ohio 

U.   S.    B.   M.  
U.   S.   B.  M.    L.  &  E.  Station 
U     S     B     M 

966 
737 
440 
470 
430 
463 
559 
752 
563 
751 
601 
976 
479 
756 
1.188 
412 
528 
589 
664 
544 
629 
328 
396 
580 
286 
341 
794 
620 
649 
1,328 
473 
377 
408 
826 
863 
1,052 
1,685 

en 

847 
1,873 
600 
884 

631 
662 
830 
930 
783 
427 
861 

945  (Okolona  

U.    S.    B.    M. 

946  |Olaton 

I     C     R     R 

947  |Old  Deposit  

L.    &  N     R     R 

948  [Oldtown..  . 

Greenup  
Carter  
TjOe-an 

U     S     B     M 

949  |Olive  Hill  
950  |Olmstead  

C.   &   O.   R.    R  
L.   &  N     R.   R. 

951  |Olympia  Rath 

C.   &  O.   R.   R 

952  lOneonta 

Campbell  
Russell  

Wphstpr 

C.      $•    O      R     R 

953  |Ono 

U     S     B     M 

954    Qnton  

TT,    S.    B.    M, 

955    Op  hi  r                 .                     Morgan 

956  |Ore  Knob 

Pike  
Jefferson 

U      S     B      M 

957  |Orell  

T,      #.    T«J,     R,     R, 

958  |0rtiz  
959  |Orville 

Webster 

TT,    8,    R,    M. 

Henry  
Hardin  
Caldwell 

U     S     B     M 

960  [Otter  Cr     Sta 

I     C     R     R 

961  [Otter  Pond 

U.    S     B.    M.                    ...      .    ..  . 

962  |Ottusville 

Franklin  
Daviess  
Daviess 

U     S.    B.    M 

963  lOwensboro  
964  lOwensboro 

L.   W.   in  Ohio  River  
U    S    B    M     C    H 

965  IPactolus 

U    S     B    M 

966  |  Paducah  
967  |  Paducah 

McCracken  
McCracken  

L.   W.   in  Ohio  River  
I.    C.    R.    R.            „  

968    Paint  Lick 

T,.    *  N.    R.   R.    ..      ,  ,     ,~.~ 

969    Paintsville 

C.   &  O.    R.    R.                   

970   Palace  P     O 

Wayne  
Harlan 

TJ.    S     R,    M.                                 

971    Pansy  Creek 

TJ.     R.     P.     M, 

U     S     B     M,                           

973   Panther  Creek  
974   Paradise  
975    Paris 

L.  &  N.  R.  R  „,-  —  . 

Muhlenberg  
Bourbon  

U.    S.    B.    M  
L    &  N    R    R 

L.   &  N.    R.    R  

977  |Parksville  

Boyle 

L     &  N     R     R     R 

Letcher  

U     S.    B.    M.                -  — 

U     S     B     M, 

980  |  Paynes    Depot  

Scott 

U     S     B     M 

Letcher 

U     S     B     M 

Lawrence  

C    &  O    R     R                     

S     R     R                             

U     S     B     M 

L     &  N     R     R                      

Henry  
Marion  
Pike 

L     &  N.   R     R,           

L    &  N.   R.    R.    _  

988  |Penny  Station......  

U     S     B     M                            

Muhlenberg  
Boyle  

U.    S.    B     M  

990  [Perry  ville  

U.    S.    B.    M  

Oil  &  Gas— 19 


578 


OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 


Elevation  Above  Sea   of  Points  in  Kentucky— Continued. 


No.                Place 
1 

County 

Station 

S53 

991  Petersburg 

L.    & 
U.    S. 
L.  H. 

N    R     R 

400 
497 
35S 
614 
389 
784 
831 
400 
704 
399 
407 
594 
680 
617 
411 
824 
960 
966 
1,410 
1,082 
409 
818 
824 
863 
1,135 
932 
887 
1,110 
971 
447 
882 
717 
884 
742 
499 
573 
1,688 
2,512 
391 
362 
502 
998 
719 
742 
511 
606 
637 
1,054 
569 
632 
484 
484 
632 

992  |  Petersburg  

B     M 

993  |  Petrie  
994  |Petroleum  

Hancock  
Allen 

&  St.  L.   R.   R  

995  |Pettit  :  

U.    S. 
U.    S. 

u.  s. 
u.   s. 

L.    & 
U.    S. 
L.   H. 
T.   C. 
C.    & 
U.    S. 
Weatl 
U.    S. 
C.    & 
L.   & 
Q.    & 
U.    S. 

u.  s. 
u.  s. 
u.  s. 

u.  s. 

L.   & 
U.   S. 

u.  s. 

L.    & 
L.    & 
I.    C. 
L.    & 
L.    & 
L.    & 
C.    & 
U.    S 
C.    & 
U.    S 
U.    S 

u.  s 

L.   H 
U.    S 
U.    S 

B     M 

996  [Pewee  Valley  
997  |  Phelps  

Oldham  
Pike 

B  .    M  
B      M 

998  (Philips   Store  
999  [Phillipsburg.....  
1000  (Philpot  
1001    Pierce  „ 
1002  |  Pierceton....-  
1003  [Pikeville  
1004  [Pilgrim  
1005  1  Pilot  Oak  
1006   Pinckard 

Muhlenberg  
Marion  
Daviess  
Breckinridge.... 
Hopkins  
Pike  
Martin  
Graves  
Woodford  
Clark  
Rockcastle 

B      M  „  

N.    R.   R  
B.    M  
&  St.  L.  R.  R  

O.    R.    R  
B.    M  
ler  Bureau  
B     M 

1007  Pine  Grove 

O     R     R 

1008  Pine  Hill.  

N     R.   R. 

1009  |Pine  Knot 

C     R     R 

1010  Pineville  
1011  IPiney  „  
1012  |Pink  
1013  |  Pinkard  
1014  [Pisgah  
1015  |Pitlsburg  *. 
1016  Pleasant  Hill...  
1017  Pleasant  Home  
1018  Pleasant  Valley  
1019  Pleasant  View 

Bell  „.... 
Crittenden  
Jessamine  
Woodford  
Woodford  
Laurel  
Mercer  
Owen  
Rockcastle  
Whitley  
Jefferson  
Henry  
Harrison  

B.    M  _... 
B.    M  
B.    M  

B.    M  
N.   R.    R  
B.   M  
B.    M  
N.   R.   R  —  
N    R     R 

1020  [Pleasure  Ridge  Pk. 
1021  |Pleasureville  
1022  |Poindexter 

R.     R  „  

N.   R.    R  
N     R     R                         

1023  (Point  Leavell  
1024  [Pond  Creek 

N     R     R 

Pike    ._  

O.    R.    R.     _  

1025  |Poole 

B     M                               

1026  |  Potter 

O     R     R 

1027  [Potters  Gap 

Letcher    

B     M 

1028  [Pound  Gap 

Letcher 

B     M 

1029  Poverty 

B     M 

1030  Powers 

Daviess  
Webster  

&  St.   L.   R    R.  

1031  Pratt 

B     M 

1032  IPreachersville 

B     M 

1033  [Preese 

Martin    .  . 

1034  [Preston 

Bath 

C.    & 
U.    S 
L.   W 
U.   S. 
C.    & 
N.  & 
C.    & 
U.  S. 

u.  s 
u.  s 

O     R     R                            

1035  |Prestonia  
1036  [Prestonsburg  
1037  [Prestonsburg  
1038  Prewitt  
1039  Prichard,  W.  Va.... 
1040  |  Princess  
1041  [Princeton  
1042  [Prospect 

B     M 

Floyd  
Floyd  
Montgomery.... 

.   in  Big  Sandy  River  
B.   M.     C.   &  O.    Station 
0.    R.    R  
W.  R.  R  -  
O     R     R                   _        ... 

Caldwell  
Jefferson  
Lawrence  

B.  M.    R.  R.  Station  — 
B     M 

1043  [Prosperity  

j^    j£  _  

ELEVATIONS  ABOVE  SEA 
Elevation  Above  Sea  of  Point*  in  Kentucky-Continued. 


579 


No.  |              Place 
1 

County 

Station 

Eleva- 
tion. | 

1044  |  Providence  

Webster  

U.   S.   B.   M 

1045  JPryors  
1046  [Pryorsburg  

Graves  
Graves  

I.    C.    R.   R  
I.    C.    R.    R 

420 
411 

1047  |Pulaski.  .. 

Pulaski  

Q.    &  C.    R.    R. 

1048  [Quality  
1049  [Quarry  Switch  

Butler  
Bullitt  

U.   S.   B.   M.  at  P.   O  
L.   &  N.    R.   R.    

503 

463 

1030  [Quicksand  

Knott  

U.   S.   B.   M  _ 

1  700 

1051  |Quincy  

Lewis 

L    W    in  Ohio  River 

1052  |Quincy  

Lewis  

C.   &  O.   R.    R 

1053  |Quinn  

Caldwell  

U.    S.    B     M 

1054  |Railey  

"Woodford  

S.    R.    R  _ 

834 

1055  |Raleig-h  

Union 

L    W    in  Ohio  River 

1056  [Ralph  
1057  [Rankin  

Ohio  
Henderson  _ 

S.    B.    M  
L.    &  N.    R.    R. 

430 
372 

1058  [Raven  
1059  IRedbush  

Knott  
Johnson  

U.    S.    B.    M  
U.    S.    B.    M 

749 
804 

1060  [Red  Hill  

Christian  

U.    S.    B.    M  .. 

450 

1061  [Red   Hill  

Hardin...._  

I.    C.    R.    R.  .._ 

751 

1062  [Red  House  

Madison  

L.    &  N.    R     R  

710 

1063  [Red  Oak  

Logan  

L.   &  N.   R     R 

595 

1064  [Red  River  

Logan  

L.    &    N     R     R 

622 

1065  [Reed  

Henderson  

U.    S.    B.    M. 

379 

1066  [Renick 

Marion 

L     &  N    R     R 

1067  |Repton  
1068  (Republican  
1069  (Reynolds  Station.... 

Crittenden  
Knott  _  
Ohio  

U.  S.   B.  M.    R.  R.   Station.... 
U.    S.    B.    M.-...  _  
U.    S.    B.    M. 

485 
804 
497 

1070  |Ricedale  

Muhlenberg..... 

L.   &  N.   R.   R. 

387 

1071  [Richardson  

Lawrence  

C.    &  O     R     R 

599 

1072  [Richardson 

Lawrence 

L    W    in  Big  Sandy 

549 

1073  [Richardsville. 

Warren  

U     S,    R.    M,     - 

686 

1074  [Richland 

Hopkins  

U.    S     B.    M. 

431 

1075  (Richelieu  

Logan  

590 

1076  [Richmond  

Madison    . 

L.    &  N.    R     R.      

926 

1077  (Rich  Pond    ... 

Warren 

L.   &  N.    R.    R.     . 

564 

1078  (Richwood 

Q.   &  C.   R.   R. 

924 

1079  [Riley 

L     *•   N     R     R 

914 

1080  (Rineyville    . 

Hardin 

I.    0.    R.    R  

808 

1081  (Riverside 

Clark 

LT    &  N,    R,    R, 

645 

1082  [Riverside 

T.    O.    R     R. 

445 

1083  (Riverside    

Warren 

552 

1084  [River   Station  
1085  (Riverton  
1086  (Roachville  
1087  [Robard    . 

Johnson  
Greenup  
Green  
Henderson 

U.    S.    B.    M  
C.   &  O.   R.   R  _  
L.  W.  In  Green  River  
U.    S.    B.   M..™  

615 
534 
544 
425 

1088  (Robinson 

Harrison 

L.   &  N.  R.   R  

674 

Butler 

U.    S.    B.    M.      ._    _ 

451 

]0<M)  (Rockfleld 

L.   &  N     R.    R. 

568 

1091  (Rock  Haven  
1092  (Rockhold 

Meade  
Whitley 

L.   H.   &  St.   L.   R.   R  
L    &  N     R     R 

412 
955 

Pike 

n.  &  n,   R.   R,    „    „,  

880 

1094  [Rockland 

T.    P.    P.    M 

664 

1095  (Rockport 

Ohio  ... 

U.    P.    P.    M,     —  -.  ,  ., 

436 

1096  IRock  Springs  

Henderson  

U.    S.    B.    M..™. 

486 

580 


OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OP  KENTUCKY 


Elevation  Above  Sea   of  Foiuts  in  Kentucky— Continued. 


No.  1  Place 

County 

Station 

Eleva- 
tion. 

1097  |Rock  Vale  
1098  Rocky  Hill  
1099  1  Rockhou  se  
1100  Rodener  
1101  Rogers  Gap  
1102  Roosevelt  
1103  Rosine  
1104  Ross  
1105  |  Rossi  yn  
1106  |Rothwell  

Breckinridge... 
Edmonson  
Pike  _.. 
Allen  
Scott.  
Breathitt  
Ohio  
Campbell  
Powell  
Menifee  
Ohio 

L. 
Jj. 

ol~ 

U. 

C. 

U. 

c. 

Lo 
Ke 

!<• 
I*. 

L. 
U. 

C. 

U. 

c. 

L. 
L. 
U. 

Q. 

U. 
S. 
L. 
C. 

N. 
U. 
L. 
L. 

r. 

L. 
L. 
N. 
C. 
L. 
L. 
Q. 
U. 
U. 

u. 
u. 
u. 

TT. 
U. 
U. 
L,. 
Lu 
U. 

r. 

H.  &  St.  L.  R.  R  
&  N.  R.  R  

&  C.  R.  R  

S.    B.    M  
&  0.    R.    R  
S.   B.  M.    L.  &  E.   Station 
&   O.    R.    R  „  

435 
596 
858 
749 
913 
748 
564 
494 
668 
993 
381 
784 
844 
610 
1,039 
425 
703 
384 
639 
549 
534 
493 
497 
857 
890 
754 
677 
656 
584 
808 
840 
392 

652 
488 
737 
547 
966 
674 
1,115 
744 
521 
762 
375 
500 
500 
1,222 
426 
888 
825 
615 
991 
705 

1108  Roumine  
1109  Rowland  
1110  IRowletts 

Taylor  
Lincoln  
Hart 

ntucky  Geological  Survey.. 
&  N  R  R 

&  N  R  R 

1111  jRoxana  
1112  |Rufus  
1113  IRugless 

&  E.  R.  R  
S.  B.  M  
&  O  R  R 

Caldwell  

1114  |  Rumsey  
1115  Rush 

McLean  
Boyd  

S  B  M 

1116  Russell 

&  O  R  R 

1117  Russellville  
1118  Ruth 

Logan  
Breckinridge... 
McLean  
Scott  
Franklin  _  
Anderson  
Simpson  
Bath  

&  N.  R.  R  
H  &  St  L  R  R 

1119  j  Sacrament  
1120  |  Sadieville  
1121  |  Saff  ell  
1122  |  Saff  ells  
1123  Salmons  
1124  Salt  Lick..  
1125  Saltpetre,  W.  Va... 
1126  Salvisa  
1127  |  Salyersville  
1128  (sample  
1129  |  Samuel  Hill  

S.  B.  M  
&  C.  R.  R  

S.  B.  M  

&  N.  R.  R  
&  0.  R.  R  
&  "W  R  R 

Mercer  
Magoffin  
Breckinridge... 
Bullitt  

Nelson 

S.  B.  M  
W.  in  Licking  River  
H.  &  St.  L.  R.  R  
S.  B.  M  
&  N  R  R 

Carroll  

&  N  R  R 

1132  |Sands,  W.  Va  
1133  |Savag-e  Branch  
1134  |Saxton  
1135  ISayers 

&  W.  R.  R  -  
&  O  R  R 

Whitley  

Nelson 

&  N.  R.  R  
&  N  R  R 

1136  [Science  Hill  
1137  Scott  
1138  Scottsburg  
1139  Scottsville  
1140  Scuffletown  
1141  Seatonsville  
1142  ISebree 

Pulaski  
Shelby  
Caldwell  
Allen 

&  C.  R.  R  
S.  B.  M.  R.  R.  Station  
S.  B.  M...._  

Henderson  
Jefferson 

S.  B.  M.  
S  B  M 

S  B  M 

1143  ISergent 

Letcher  
Crittenden  

S  B  M 

1144  |  Shady  Grove  
1145  |  Shannondale  , 
1146  |Shawhan 

S  B  M 

S  B  M 

Bourbon  

&  N.  R.  R  

1147  |  Shearer 

&  N  R  Tl 

1148  |  Shelby  
1149  1  Shelby  

Boyle  
Pike  

S.  B.  M  
&  O.  R.  R._... 

ELEVATIONS  ABOVE  SEA  581 

Elevation  Above  Sea   of  Pointg  in  Kentucky— Continued. 


No.  Place 

County 

Station 

ii 

1,431 
696 
760 
446 
529 
924 
458 
804 
796 
906 
387 
704 
403 
912 
875 
286 
413 
607 
632 
1,004 
950 
879 
699 
389 
456 
364 
629 
967 
981 
546 
462 
478 
529 
507 
579 
497 
1,207 
783 
1,069 
365 
690 
620 
609 
738 
387 
816 
981 
427 
674 

no 

420 
733 
550 

1150  |Shelby  Gap  
1151  [Shelby  Junction  

Pike 

Jefferson  

L.   &  N.    R.   R. 

1152  [Shelby  ville  
1153  |Shepherdsville  
1154  [Sheridan 

Shelby  
Bullitt 

U.   S.   B.   M.    C.  H  
TT     S     R     M      f!     H 

Crittenden 

1155  |Sherman  

Grant  
Jefferson  
Madison  
Shelby  
Rockcastle  
Hancock  
Oldham  
Webster  
McCreary  
Henry  

Q.    &   C.    R     R 

1156  [Shively  
1157  [Silver  Creek  Sta  
1158  [Simpsonville  
1159  [Sinks  
1160  [Skillman  
1161  (Skylight  
1162  Slaughtersville  
1163  [Sloans  Valley  
1164  [Smithfleld  
1165  jSmithland 

U.    S.    B.    M  

L.    &  N.    R.    R  
U.    S.    B.    M.     R.    R.    Station.... 
L     &  N     R     R 

L.    H.    &   St.    L.    R.    R  _  
U.    S.    B.    M  
U.    S     B     M 

Q.   &  C.   R.   R  

T,,  &  N.   n.  R.                    ,  -„ 

Livingston  
Henderson  
Warren 

L    W    in  Ohio  River 

1166  [Smith  Mills  ,. 
1167  [Smith's  Grove  
1168  [Smyrna  
1169  [Snider  
1170  |  Soldier  
1171  [Somerset 

U     S     B     M 

L     &  N     R     R 

Jefferson  
Spencer  
Carter  

U.    S.    B.    M  _  
L     &  N    R.    R. 

C.    &  0.    R.    R  _  _.. 
B.    M.    on   Cumberland   Hotel.. 
L     &   N     R     R 

Hardin 

1173  [Sorgho  
1174  [South  Carrollton  

Daviess  
Muhlenberg  

U     S     B     M 

U.    S     B.-M  

M    &  O     R     R 

1176  [South  Covington  
1177  1  South  Elkhorn 

Kenton  
Fayette  

L.    &  N.    R.    R  -  
U     S     B     M 

1178  [South  Fork 

1179  [South  Hill  
1180  [South  Louisville  
1181  [South  Park 

Butler 

U     S     B     M 

L     &  N     R     R 

U     S     B     M 

1182  South  Portsmouth.... 
1183  [South  Ripley 

C     &   O     R     R 

Mason  

C     &  O     R     R 

1184   South  Union  
1185   Sparta  __ 
1186  |Specht  
1187  [Spencer 

Logan  
Gallatin  
Pike  
Montgomery... 
Knott 

L.   &  N.    R.   R  ~  
L.   &  N.    R.    R  
U.    S.    B.    M  
C.   &  O.   R.   R  _  

1188  fSpider 

U     S     B     M.                

1189  [Spottsville 

Henderson  

U.    S.    B.    M  

1190  [Sprigg  W  Va 

N.  &  W    R.   R  _  - 

1191  ISpringdale 

Jefferson  

U.    S.    B.    M  _  

C    &  O.   R.    R  -  

1193  [Springfield  
1194  [Spring  Lick 

Washington  
Grayson  
Woodford  

L.   &  N.    R.   R  
I.  C    R.  R  

1195  [Spring  Station  

U.    S.    B.    M  
L    &  N.    R.    R.    . 

U     S     B     M                        -    .. 

1198  (St.  Helens  

Lee 

U    S    B    M    L    &  E    Station 

Weather  Bureau   

U     S     B.   M. 

1201  (St.  Mary  

19A<>  ISt  Mnttbpws 

Marion  
Jefferson  

L.   &  N.    R.    U. 
U.    S.    B.    M  

582  OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

Elevation  Atoove  Sea   of  Points   in   Kentucky— Continued. 


No. 

Place 

County 

Station 

Hj 

S- 

1203 

St.   Vincent  

Union  

I.    C.    R.    R  

413 

1204 

Stacey  

Perry  

824 

1205 

S  tambaug-h  

Johnson  

U.  S.  G.  S  

649 

1206  [Stamping  Ground  

Scott  

U.  S.  B.   M.    R.  R.   Station  

799 

1207  |  Stanford  

Lincoln  

U.   S.  B.   M.     C.  H  

912 

1208 

Stanhope  

Webster  

U.    S.    B.    M  

468 

1209 

Stanley  

Daviess  

U.    S.    B.    M  

385 

1210  j  Stanton  

Powell  

U.  S.  B.  M.    L.  &  B.  Sttaion... 

662 

1211  [State  Line  

Christian  

L.  &  N.  R.  R  

535 

1212  [State  Line  

Whitley  

Q.    &  C.    R.    R  

1,359 

1213  [Stedman  

Franklin  

U.   S.  B.  M.    R.  R.   Station  

711 

1214 

Stephensburg  

Hardin  

I.    C.    R.    R  

611 

1215 

Stephensport  

Breckinridge... 

L.    W.    in   Ohio   River  

340 

1216  [Stephensport  

Breckinridge... 

L.   H.    &  St.    L.    R.   R  

390 

1217  |  Stepstone  

Montgomery... 

C.    &    O.    R.    R  

777 

1218  |  Steuben  ville  

Wayne  



887 

1219  |  Stine  

Jefferson  

L.    S.    R.    R  

484 

1220  [Stithton  

Hardin  

I.    C.    R.    R  

686 

1221  [Stone  Coal  

Knott  

U.    S.    B.    M  

686 

1222  |  Strawberry  

Jefferson  

L.    &  N.    R.    R  

432 

1223 

Stroud  

Muhlenberg  

L.    &  N.    R.    R  

380 

1224 

Strunk  

McCreary  

Q.    &   C.    R.    R  

1,397 

1225  j  Sturgis  

Union  

U.   S.  B.   M.    R.  R.   Station  

375 

1226 

Sullivan  

Union  

U.    S.    B.    M  

395 

1227 

Sulphur  

Henry  

L.    &  N.    R.    R  

683 

1228 

Sulphur  Springs  

Ohio  

U.    S.    B.    M  

418 

1229 

Summit  

Boyd  

C.    &   O.    R.    R  

664 

1230 

Summit  

Mason  

L.    &  N.    R.    R  

905 

1231 

Summit  

McCreary  

Q.    &  C.    R.    R....  

1,263 

1232 

Sunnydale  

Ohio  

-U.    S.    B.    M  

427 

1233 

Sutherland  

Daviess  

U.    S.    B.    M  _  

400 

1234 

Button  Knob  

Whitley  

U.    S.    B.    M  

1,515 

1235   Swallowfleld  

Franklin  

U.    S.    B.    M  

527 

1236  |  Sweeney  

Garrard  

U.    S.    B.    M  

1,024 

1237  |  S  witzer  

Franklin  

U.   S.   B.   M.    R.   R.   Station  

735 

1238   Tackitt's  Mill  

Owen  

U.    S.    B.    M  

641 

1239    Taffy  ,  

Ohio  

U.    S.    B.    M  

480 

1240  ITalbott 

Bourbon 

L     &  N     R     R 

808 

1241  [Tallega  

Lee  

U.  S.  B.  M.    L.  &  E.  Station.... 

1242  |  Tal  mag-e  

Mercer.  

U.    S.    B.    M  

821 

1243  |  Tannery  

Lewis  

C.    &   0.    R.    R  

552 

1244  [Tateville  

McCreary  

Q.    &   C.    R.    R  •  

877 

1245  [Taylor  Mines  

Ohio  

U.    S.    B.    M  

500 

1246  [Taylorsville  

Spencer  

U.    S.   B.   M.   on  Cl.   H  

490 

1247  [Teresita  P.  O  

Owen  

U.    S.    B.    M  

687 

1248  |  Terrapin  

Mercer  

U.    S.    B.    M  

876 

1249  [Thacker,    W.    Va  



N.  &  W.   R.   R  

716 

1250  [The  Forks  

Pike  

C.    &   0.    R.    R  

710 

1251  [Thompson's  

Montgomery.... 

C.    &   O.    R.    R  

1,037 

1252  [Thompson  

Union  

I.    C,    R.    R  

408 

1253  [Thompsonville  

Christian  

T.    C.    R.    R  

542 

1254  [Threlkel  

Butler  

U.    S.   B.   M  

430 

1255  [Thurman  

Hickman  I.    C.    R.    R  

322 

ELEVATIONS  ABOVE  SEA 
Elevation  Above  Sea  of  Points  in  Kentucky-Continued. 


583 


No.                Place 
1256    Tichenor  

County 

1257  (Tilden  
1258  (Tillie  
1259  (Tip   Top  
1260  (Tomahawk  
1261    Topeka  Crossroads.. 
1262    Torchlight  
1263  (Torrent  

Webster  
Letcher  
!  Hardin  
Martin  
Union  
Lawrence  
Wolfe 

1264  (Tradewater  
1265  (Trammel  
1266  Trenton  
1267  Tribune  
1268  (Triplett  Tunnel  
1269  (Troublesome  P.  O. 
1270  (Troy  
1271  Tucker  
1272  (Tunnel  Hill  
1273  j  Tunnel  Hill  
1274  (Turners  

Hopkins  
Allen  
Todd  
Grittenden  | 
Carter  
Breathitt  
Woodford  
Jefferson  
Henderson  
Hardin  

1275  (Twin  Tunnels  
1276  (Typo  
1277  (Tyrone  
1278  (Tyrone  
1279  (Ulvan  . 

Muhlenberg  
Perry  
Anderson  
Anderson  
Perry  
Pendleton  
Jessamine  

1280  (Uma 

1281  (Union  Mills  
1282  (Uniontown 

1283  Uniontown  
1284  Upland  
1285  (Upper  Bruce 

Union  
McCreary  
Lewis 

1286  (Upton  
1287  (Utica  
1288  |U.  Z. 

Hardin.....  
Daviess  
Letcher 

1289  Vaden 

1290  (Valley  Hill..._  
1291  (Valley  Station  
1292  (Vanarsdell 

Washington  
Jefferson  

1293  (Vanceburg  
1294  (Vanderburg  
1295  (Van  Lear  
1296  (Van  Meter  
1297  jVeazeyJ  
1  298  |  Veech  dal  e  
1299  (Venters  
1300  (Verona  
1301  (Versailles  
1302  (Vest 

Lewis  
Webster  
Johnson  
Fayette  
Hopkins  
Shelby  
Pike  :  
Boone  
Woodford  
Knott 

1303  (View  
1304  jvine  Grove  
1305  (Viol  a  
1306  |Virden 

Crittenden  
Hardin  
Graves  
Powell  
Pike  
Kenton  

1307  |Virgie  
1308  |Visalia  

Station 
.  L.    &  N.   R.    R  

383 

U.    S.    B.    M  

425 

1  "W 

I.    C.    R.    R. 

760 

U.  S.  G.   S  

656 

.  U.    S.    B.    M  

430 

U.    S.    B.    M  
U.   S.  B.  M.  L.  &  E.  Station.... 
I.    C.    R.    R  _  

5S8 
.     939 
456 

761 

L.    &  N.    R.   R  

r.  s.  B.  M. 

531 
431 

C     &   O     R     R 

1  002 

U.    S.    B.    M  
S.     R.     R  !  

831 
828 
719 

U.    S.    B.    M  

443 

L.    &   N.    R.    R  
L.    &  N.    R.    R  
U.   S.   B.    M.   L  &  N.    Station 
L     &  E     R     R 

767 
740 
501 
840 

r,.   W.  in  Kentucky  River  
U.    S.    B.    M  „  
L.   &  E.    R.    R...:  
L.  &  N.  R.   R  _._... 
U.    S.    B.    M  -  
L.  W.  in  Ohio  River  
I.    C.    R.    R  
Q.  &  C.   R.   R  

483 

738 
951 
597 
939 
306 
354 
1,253 

C     &   O     R     R 

553 

L.    &  N.   R     R  „  

724 

U.    S.    B.    M  .  

417 

L.    &  E     R.    R  _....  

L.   &  N.   R.   R  

850 

L     &  N.   R.    R.    .     

572 

U     S     B.    M.                           , 

452 

U     S     B     M 

788 

C.    &  O     R.    R  

523 

U.    S.    B.    M  
U.   S.  G.  S  
L     S     R     R 

M 

612 
880 

U     S     B.    M,                „  

564 

L.   S     R.   R.     ..      . 

742 

775 

L     &  N     R     R. 

862 

U.    S.    B.    M  
U.    S.    B.    M  

923 
1,044 
441 

I     C     R     R 

721 

I.    C.    K.    K 

r.   S.    r..    M.    L.  &  E.  Station 
i'     s     n     .M 

400 
660 
837 

U   \V.   in  Licking  lM\«-r 

453 

584 


OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 


Elevation  Above  Sea   of  Points  in  Kentucky— Continued. 


No. 

Place 

County 

Station 

Eleva- 
tion. 

1309 
1310 
1311 
1312 
1313 
1314 
1315 
1316 
1317 
1318 
1319 
1320 
1321 
1322 
1323 
1324 
1325 
1326 
1327 
1328 
1329 
1330 
1331 
1332 
1333 
1334 
1335 
1336 
1337 
1338 
1339 
1340 
1341 
1342 
1343 
1344 
1345 
1346 
1347 
1348 
1349 
1350 
1351 
1352 
1353 
1354 
1355 
1356 
1357 
1358 
1359 
1360 
1361 

Waddy  
Wagon  Ford  
Waitman  
Walbridge  
Wallace 

Shelby  
Crittenden  
Hancock...  
Lawrence  

S.  R.  R  
U.  S.  B.  M  
L.  H.  &  St.  L.  R.  R  -  
U.  S.  B.  M  
L  S  R  R 

854 
353 
344 
588 
814 
2,004 
449 

912 
445 
703 

587 
411 
1,025 
468 
386 
498 
408 
702 
1,215 
380 
601 
64S 
542 
629 
486 
501 
631 
464 
742 
353 
462 
441 
487 
473 
432 
376 
776 
539 
729 
605 
956 
430 
903 
1,146 
501 
873 
506 
570 
1,332 
857 
1,280 

Walnut  
Walnut  Grove  
Walnut  Hill  School. 
Walton  _  
Wanamaker  
Ward 

Knott  
Caldwell  
Caldwell 

U.  S.  B.  M  _  
U.  S.  B.  M  
U  S  B  AI 

Boone  
Webster  
Pike 

Q.  &  C.  R.  R  
U.  S.  B.  M  

Wards  
Warfield  
Warsaw  
Wasioto  _.. 
Waterford  
Water  Valley  
Water  Works  
Waverly  
Wayland  
Waynesburgr  
Weaverton  
Webb,  W.  Va  
Webbville  
Webster  
Weir  

Carter  
Martin  
Gallatin  
Bell  
Spencer  

C.  &  O.  R.  R..-  
L.  W.  in  Big-  Sandy  
L.  W.  in  Ohio  River  
U.  S.  B.  M.  L.  &  E.  Station.. 
U.  S.  B.  M  -  
I  C  R  R 

Campbell  
Union  
Floyd 

C.  &  O.  R.  R  
I.  C.  R.  R  
U  S  G  S 

Lincoln  
Henderson  

Q.  &  C.  R.  R  
V  &  W  R  R 

Lawrence  
Breckinridge... 
Muhlenberg  
Muhlenberg-  
Bracken  
Grayson  
Ohio  
Morgan  
Crittenden  
Daviess  
Hardin  
Oldham  

U.  S.  B.  M  
L.  H.  &  St.  L.  R.  R  
U.  S.  B.  M  
L  &  N  R  R 

Wellsburg-  
West  Clifty  
Westerfleld  
West  Liberty  
Weston  
West  Louisville  
West  Point  

C.  &  O.  R.  R  
I.  C.  R.  R  
U.  S.  B.  M  
L.  W.  in  Licking  River  

u.  s.  B.  M....:  

U.  S.  B.  M  
U  S  B  M 

U  S  B  M 

U  S  B  M 

Wheatcrof  t  
Whick 

Webster  
Breathitt 

U.  S.  B.  M  
L  &  E  R  R 

Whippoorwill 

L  &  N  R  R 

Whitefleld  
White  House  
White  Oak 

Bullitt  
Johnson  
Pulaski 

U.  S.  B.  M  
C.  &  O.  R.  R  
Q  &  C  R  R 

White  Plains  
White's  Station  
Whitesburg  
White  Sulphur  
White  Sulphur  
|Whitesville 

Hopkins  
Madison..  
Letcher  
Caldwell  
Scott  

I.  C.  R.  R  
L.  &  N.  R.  R  
L.  &  E.  R.  R  
U.  S.  B.  M.  R.  R.  Station  
U.  S.  B.  M  
U  S  B  M 

L  &  N  R  R 

|Whitley  
|  Whitney  
Wiborg:  

McCreary  
Scott  
McCreary  

Q.  &  C.  R.  R.  
Q.  &  C.  R.  R  
Q.  &  C.  R.  R  

ELEVATIONS  ABOVE  SEA  585 

Elevation  Above  Sea  of  Point*  in  Kentucky— Continued. 


No. 

Place 

County 

Station 

Ej 

@5 

1362 
1363 
1364 
1365 
1366 
1367 
1368 
1369 
1370 
1371 
1372 
1373 
1374 
1375 
1376 
1377 

r,7s 

1379 
1380 
1381 
1382 
1383 
1384 
1385 
1386 
1387 
1388 
1389 
1390 
1391 
1392 
1393 
1394 
1395 
1396 
1397 
1398 
1399 
1400 
1401 
1402 
1403 

Wickliffe  

Ballard  
Lawrence  
Rockcastle  
Campbell  
Allen 

I.    C.    R,    R. 

322 
705 
92S 
492 
764 
677 
625 
939 
665 
943 
SS2 
377 
372 
643 
981 
1,032 
466 
•"01 
1,080 
610 
412 
623 

TH.H) 

790 
643 
512 
382 
695 
478 
616 
539 
990 
484 
364 
401 
582 
730 
823 
706 
567 
436 
486 

Wilbur 

Wildie  

L.  &  N.   R     R 

Wilders  

L     &  N     R     R 

Wildwood  
Willard  
Willard  

Pike 

U     S     G     S 

Carter  

U.    S     B.    M 

Williamsburg  
Williamson,  W.  Va. 
Williamstown  

Whitley 

L     &  N     R     R 

N    &  W    R    R 

Grant  

Q.  C.   R    R.              ... 

Wilmore  

Jessamine  
Henderson  
Hopkins  
Spencer  
Clark  

U.    S.    B.    M. 

Wilson  
Wilson  Bridge  
Wilsonville  
Winchester  
Windom  _  
Wingo 

I.   C.   R.  R  _ 

U.    S.    B.    M  _  
U.    S.    B.    M  
U.  S.  B.  M.  L.  &  E.  Station.... 
Q    &  C     R     R. 

I     C     R     R 

Wolf  Lick  
Woodbine  

Logan  
Whitley  

L.   &  N.    R.   R  
L.   &  N.   R.    R  
L.   &  N.   R.    R. 

Woodbury  

Butler  
Hart  

L     &  N     R     R 

Woodlawn.  

L     &  N     R     R 

Pike 

U     S     B     M 

Woods  
Woodville  
Worthington  
Worthington  
Worthville 

Floyd  
Christian  
Henderson  
Jefferson  
Carroll 

U.    S.    B.    M  
1     C     R.    R. 

L.  H.  &  St.  L.  R.  R  
U.    S.    B.    M  
L    &  N     R     R 

Wirights  
Wurtland 

Taylor  

L.   &  N.    R.    R  _  
C     &   O     R     R. 

Wyandotte  
Wyman  

Clark  
McLean  
Union 

U.   S.   B.   M.   L.   &  E.   Station 
U.    S.    B.    M  
U     S.    B.    M.        ... 

Wysox 

Ohio 

U     S     B     M 

Yatesville  

U     S     B     M 

Pike 

C.    &  O.    R.    R  -     _  

Yerkes 

L     &  E.   R.    R  

Youngs  H.  Bridge... 
Zelda  P    O 

S    R    R 

Lawrence  
Henderson  
Bullitt  

U.    S.    B     M  -  -  

U.    S.    B.    M  

Zoneton  — 

U.    S.    B.    M  _  

CHAPTER  XI. 

A  REVISED  BIBLIOGRAPHY  OF  PETROLEUM,  NATURAL  GAS, 
ASPHALT  AND  OIL  SHALE  IN  KENTUCKY.* 


Andrews,  E.  B. 

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Ashley,  George  Hall 

2.  Oil  resources  of  black  shales  of  the  eastern  United  States 
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Ashley,  G.  H.,  and  Glen,  L.  C. 

3.  Geology  and   Mineral  Resources  of  part  of  the  Cumberland 
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Bagby,  F.  H. 

4.  The  South  Central  Petroleum  District.    Annual  Report  of  In- 
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6.  The  Economic  Geology  of  a  Portion  of  Edmonson  and  Gray- 
son  Counties:  Ky.  Geol.  Surv.,  Series  IV.,  Vol.  II,  Part  I,  1914, 
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Burke,  W.  E. 

7.  Asphalt  Rock  in  Kentucky:    Eng.  and  Min.  Journ.,  Vol.   75, 
pp.  969-970,  1  fig.,  1903. 

Butts,  Charles 

8.  Geology  and   Mineral   Resources   of  Jefferson   County,   Ky.: 
Ky.  Geol.  Surv.,  Series  IV.,  Vol.  Ill,  Part  II.  pp.  238-241.    1915 
Discusses  oil  and  gas  possibilities. 

8-A.  The  Geology  of  Barren  County,  Ky.,  Dept.  of  Geol.  and 
Forestry  of  Ky.,  Series  V,  Mineral  and  Forest  Resources,  Vol. 
1,  No.  3,  1919. 

9.  The  Mississippian  Formations  of  Western  Kentucky:  Ky.  Geol. 
Surv.   Pub.    (The   Tar    Springs    Sandstone — near    Cloverport, 
Ky.),  1917.     pp.  103,  104  and  105. 

*Ji!lson,  W.  R.,  Revised  reprint  from  Dept.  of  Geol.  and  For- 
estry of  Ky.,  Series  V.,  Mineral  and  Forest  Resources  of  Ky., 
Vol.  1,  No.  1,  Paper  No.  3,  April,  1919. 


A  REVISED  BIBLIOGRAPHY  587 

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10.  Petroleum  and  Natural  Gas  Resources  of  Canada:  Vol.  I,  Vol. 
II.  Mines  Branch  Mem.  291,  Ottawa,  Can.,  1915.    Various  refer- 
ences to  oil  and  gas  sands  and  production  in  Kentucky. 

Crandall,  A.  R. 

11.  Report  on  the  Geology  of  Whit'ey  County  and  a  Part  of  Pu- 
laski:  Ky.  Geol.  Surv.,  Old  Series,  Vol.  C,  Part  II,  The  South- 
eastern Coal  Field,  pp.  5-6,  1885.     Discusses  structure.     (Edi- 
tion exhausted.) 

Crider,  A.  F. 

12.  Geo  ogy  and  Economic  Products  of  the  Earlington  Quadran- 
gle:  Ky.  Geol.  Surv.,  Series  IV,  Vol.  II,  Part  I,  pp.  99,  1914. 
(Edition  exhausted.) 

13.  Report  on  the  Geology  and  Mineral  Resources  of  the  Daw- 
son  Springs  Quadrangle:   Ky.  Geol.  Surv.,  Series  IV,  Vol.  II, 
Part  I,  pp.  63,  1914.     (Edition  exhausted.) 

14.  Economic  Geology  of  the  Tell  City  and  Owensboro  Quadran- 
gles:  Ky.  Geol.  Surv.,  Series  IV,  Vol.  I,  Part  I,  pp.  298-302, 
1913.     Discusses  oil  and  gas  possibilities. 

Crump,  M.  H. 

15.  Kentucky  Rock  Asphalt:   Ky.  Geo\   Surv.,  Series  IV,  Vol.  I, 
Part  II,  pp.  1053-1065,  1913. 

Daddow,  S  H. 

16.  Coal,  Iron  and  Oil,  or  the  Practical  American  Miner,  808  pp , 
map,  Pottsville,  1886.     Reference  to  Kentucky. 

Davie,  W.  J. 

17.  The  Resources  and  Condition  of  the  Commonwealth  of  Ken- 
tucky: Ky.  State  Bureau  Agr.,  Hort,  and  Stat.  pp.  76.     1877. 
Refers    to    aerial    geology   of   Livingston,    Crittenden,    Lyon, 
Caldwell,   Trigg,   Christian,   Todd,   Logan,   Simpson,   Warren, 
Allen,  Monroe,  Barren,  Butler  and  Edmonson  Counties,  Ky. 

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18.  Bituminous  and  Asphalt  Rocks  of  the  United  States:   U.  S. 
Geol.  Surv.,  22nd  Annual  Report,  pp.  211-452.     1900-1901.    Con- 
tains an  account  of  the  bituminous  sandstone  in  Kentucky 
compiled  from  a  report  made  by  S.  D.  Averitt. 

Fischer,  Moritz 

19.  Natural   Gas   in  Kentucky:    U.   S.  Geo1.   Surv.,  Mineral  Re- 
sources, 1887,  pp.  489-492,  1888. 

20.  Oil  Field   of  Barren   County:    Eng.  and   Mining  Journ.,  Vol. 
49,  pp.  197-198,  1890. 

Foerste,  August  F. 

21.  Age  of  the  Cincinnati  Anticlinal:  Am.  Geologist,  Vol.  7,  pp. 
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22.  Cincinnati  Anticline  in   Southern  Kentucky:    Am.  Geologist, 
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588  OIL,  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

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25.  Oil  and  Gas  Possibilities  of  Kentucky:    Am.  Inst.  of  Mining 
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pp.  644-956,  2  figs.,  1916 

26.  Coals  of  the  Region  Drained  by  the   Quicksand  Creeks,   in 
Breathitt,  Floyd  and  Knott  Counties:   Kentucky  Geol.  Surv., 
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in  parts  of  Breathitt,  Knott  and  Floyd  Counties,  Ky. 

Fuller,  Myron  L. 

27.  Appalachian  Oil  Field:    Geol.  Soc.  of  America  Bulletin,  Vol. 
27,   No.  3,   pp.   617-654,  5   figs.,   Sept.   30,  1917.     Reference  to 
Kentucky. 

Gardner,  James  H. 

28.  A  Stratigraphic  Disturbance  through  the  Ohio  Valley,  running 
from  the  Appalachian  Plateau  in  Pennsylvania,  to  the  Ozark 
Mountains  in  Missouri.     Bull.  Geol.  Soc.  Amer.,  Vol.  26,  pp. 
477-483.     1  Fig.  Map.     1916.     Describes  the  Kentucky  River- 
Irvine-Paint  Creek  Fault,  etc. 

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279-280,  Sept.  21,  1917. 

Glenn,  L.  C. 

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with   Special   Reference  to   the   Coal  Beds:    Kentucky  Geol. 
Surv.,  Bull.  17,  Serial  No.  24,  1912,  pp.  65-75.     Discusses  gen- 
eral structural  relations  of  this  district  including  description 
of  the  Rough  Creek  Fau.t  Zone. 

Glenn,  L.  C.,  and  Ashley,  G.  H.  (See  Ashley,  G.  H.) 

31.  Geology  and  Mineral  Resources  of  Part  of  the  Cumberland 
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No.  49,  1906,  pp.  85,  223.     (Edition  exhausted). 

Hitchcock,  C.  H. 

32.  Petroleum  in  North  America:    Geol.   Mag.  Vol.   4,  pp.   34-37, 
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of  relation  of  structure  to  accumulation  of  petroleum. 

Hodge,  J.  M. 

33.  Geology  of  the  Lower  North  Fork,  Middle  and  South  Forks, 
Kentucky  River:    Ky.   Geol.   Surv.,  Old   Series,  Vol.   C,  Part 
II.     The  Southeastern  coal  field,  pp.  60,  62,  63,  108,  111-112. 
Discusses    Geol.    structure    and    natural    gas.     (Edition    ex- 
hausted.) 

Hoeing,  J.  B. 

34.  Oil  and  Gas:    Kentucky  Geol.   Surv.,  Series  IV,  Vol.  I,  Part 
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35.  Oil  and  Gas  Sands  of  Kentucky:  Kentucky  Geol.  Surv.,  Bulle- 
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A  REVISED  BIBLIOGRAPHY  589 

Hutchinson,  P.  M. 

36.  Preliminary  Report  on  Oil  and  Gas  Possibilities  in  the  New- 
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including  a  discussion  of  the  primary  factors  governing  such 
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pp.  85-92,  1910. 

37.  Geology  and  Coals  of  the  Central  City,  Madisonville,  Calhoun 
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No.  26,  1912.    Discusses  structural  geology  and  well  records. 

Jillson,  Willard  R. 

38.  The  Used  and  Unused  Natural  Gas  Fields  of  Eastern  Ken- 
tucky and  Their  Relation  to  the  Present  and  Future  Public 
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39.  A  Bibliography  of  Kentucky  Petroleum,  Natural  Gas,  Asphalt 
and  Oil  Shale:  Dept.  Geol.  and  Forestry  of  Kentucky,  Series 
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Paper  No.  3,  1919. 

40.  The  Used  and  Unused  Natural  Gas  Fields  of  Eastern  Ken- 
tucky and  Their  Relation  to  the  Present  and  Future  Public 
Service  Demands.     (Revised  to  April  1,  1919):  Dept.  of  Geol. 
and  Forestry  of  Ky.,  Series  V,  Mineral  and  Forest  Resources 
of  Kentucky,  Vol.  1,  No.  1,  Paper  No.  2,  1919. 

41.  The   Migration   of  the  Headwaters   Divide   of  Right   Middle 
Creek,  Floyd  County,  Kentucky:  Am.  Journ.  Sc.,  Vol.  XLVII, 
Jan.,  1919,  pp.  60-64,  also  reprint  in  Dept.  of  Geol.  and  For- 
estry of  Kentucky,  Series  V.,  Mineral  and  Forest  Resources, 
Vol.  1,  No.  2,  Paper  No.  7,  1919.     Reference  to  oil  and  gas 
structure. 

42.  Sketch  of  the  Development  of  the  Oil  and  Gas  Industry  in 
Kentucky  During   the   Past   Century.     (1819-1919);    Dept.   of 
Geol.   and   Forestry   of   Ky.,    Series   V,    Mineral   and   Forest 
Resources  of  Kentucky,  Vol.  1,  No.  1,  Paper  No.  1,  1919. 

43.  The  Oil  and  Gas  Resources  of  Kentucky:  Dept.  of  Geol.  and 
Forestry  of  Ky.,  Series  V,  Bull.  No.  1,  1919. 

44.  Structural  Deformation  and  Its  Relation  to  Proven  Oil  and 
Gas  Accumulation  in  Eastern  Kentucky:   Dept.  of  Geol.  and 
Forestry  of  Ky.,  Series  V,  Mineral  and  Forest  Resources  of 
Kentucky,  Vol.  1,  No.  2,  Paper  No.  1,  1919. 

45.  The  Status  of  the  Mauch  Chunk  in  Southeastern  Kentucky  as 
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APPENDIX. 


PART  I. 

STATUTE   REGULATING   CONTROL   OF   PETRO- 
LEUM, NATURAL  GAS  AND  SALT- 
WATER "WELLS. 

(Chap.  100,  Act  of  May  14,  1892.) 


§  3910.  Person  not  using  well  to  close  it  so  as  t-o 
prevent  waste.  That  from  and  after  the  passage  of  this 
act,  any  person  or  corporation,  and  each  and  every  one  of 
them,  in  possession,  whether  as  owner,  lessee,  agent  or 
manager,  of  any  well  in  which  petroleum,  natural  gas  or 
salt-water  has  been  found,  shall,  unless  said  product  is 
sooner  utilized,  within  a  reasonable  time,  not,  however, 
exceeding  three  months  from  the  completion  of  said  well, 
in  order  to  prevent  said  product  wasting  by  escape,  shut 
in  and  confine  the  same  in  said  well  until  such  time  as  it 
shall  be  utilized;  Provided,  however,  That  this  section 
shall  not  apply  to  gas  escaping  from  any  well  while  it  is 
being  operated  as  an  oil  well  or  while  it  is  used  for  fresh 
or  mineral  water. 

§  3911.  How  abandoned  wells  to  be  closed.  That 
whenever  any  well  shall  have  been  put  down  for  the  pur- 
pose of  drilling,  or  exploring  for  oil,  gas,  or  salt  water, 
upon  abandoning  or  ceasing  to  operate  the  same,  the  per- 
son or  corporation  in  possession  as  aforesaid  shall,  for 
the  purpose  of  excluding  all  fresh  water  from  the  gas- 
bearing  rock,  and  before  drawing  the  casing,  fill  up  the 
well  with  sand  or  rock  sediment  to  a  depth  of  at  least 
twenty  feet  above  the  rock  which  holds  the  oil,  gas  or  salt 
water,  and  drive  a  round,  seasoned  wooden  plug,  at  least 
three  feet  in  length,  equal  in  diameter  to  the  diameter  of 
the  well  below  the  casing,  -to  a  point  at  least  five  feet 
below  the  bottom  of  the  casing;  and  immediately  after 
drawing  the  casing,  shall  drive  a  round,  seasoned  wooden 
plug  at  a  point  just  below  where  the  lower  end  of  the  cas- 
ing rests,  which  plug  shall  be  at  least  three  feet  in  length, 

596 


APPENDIX  597 

tapering  in  form,  and  of  the  same  diameter,  at  the  dis- 
tance of  eighteen  inches  from  the  smaller  end,  as  the  dia- 
meter of  the  hole  below  the  point  at  which  it  is  to  be 
driven.  After  the  plug  has  been  properly  driven,  there 
shall  be  filled  on  top  of  the  same,  sand  or  rock  sediment 
to  the  depth  of  at  least  five  feet. 

§  3912.  Penalty  for  violation  of  provision  of  this 
law.  Any  person  or  corporation  who  shall  violate  any  of 
the  provisions  of  sections  3910  or  3911,  shall  be  liable  to 
a  penalty  of  one  hundred  dollars  for  each  and  every  vio- 
lation thereof,  and  to  the  further  penalty  of  one  hundred 
dollars  for  each  thirty  days  during  which  said  violation 
shall  continue;  and  all  such  penalties  shall  be  recovered, 
with  cost  of  suit,  in  a  civil  action  or  actions  in  the  name 
of  the  State,  for  the  use  of  the  county  in  which  the  well 
shall  be  located.  (See  salt  and  saltpetre  works,  sec.  4359.) 

§  3913.  Who,  besides  owner,  may  close  abandoned 
well.  Whenever  any  person  or  corporation  in  possession 
of  any  well  in  which  oil,  gas  or  salt  water  has  boon  found, 
shall  fail  to  comply  with  the  provisions  of  section  3910, 
any  person  or  corporation  lawfully  in  possession  of  lands 
situate  adjacent  to  or  in  the  neighborhood  of  said  well, 
may  enter  upon  the  lands  upon  which  said  woll  is  situ- 
ated, and  take  possession  of  said  woll  from  which  oil,  gas 
or  salt  water  is  allowed  to  escape  or  waste  in  violation  of 
said  section  3910,  and  tube  and  pack  said  woll,  and  shut 
in  said  oil,  gas  or  salt  water,  and  may  maintain  a  civil 
action  in  any  court  of  this  State  against  the  owner,  lessee, 
agent  or  manager  of  said  well,  and  each  and  every  one 
of  them,  jointly  and  severally,  to  recover  the  cost  thereof. 
This  shall  be  in  addition  to  the  penalties  provided  by  sec- 
tion 3912. 

§  3914.  Person  not  owner  closing  \\vll  may  recover 
costs  of  owner.  Whenever  any  person  or  corporation 
shall  abandon  any  well,  and  shall  fail  to  comply  with  sec- 
tion 3911,  any  person  or  corporation  lawfully  in  posses- 
sion of  lands  adjacent  to  or  in  the  neighborhood  of  sail  I 
well,  may  enter  upon  the  kind  upon  which  said  well  is 
situated,  and  take  possession  of  said  well,  and  plug  the 
same  in  the  manner  provided  by  section  391 1,  ami  may 
maintain  a  civil  action  in  any  court  of  this  State  against 
the  owner  or  person  abandoning  said  well,  and  every  one 
of  them,  jointly  and  severally,  to  recover  the  cost  thereof. 


598       OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

This  shall  be  in  addition  to  the  penalties  provided  by  sec- 
tion 3912 :  Provided,  This  section  shall  not  apply  to  per- 
sons owning  the  lands  on  which  said  well  or  wells  are 
situated  and  drilled  by  other  parties ;  and  in  case  the  per- 
son or  corporation  drilling  said  well  or  wells  is  insolvent, 
then,  in  that  event,  any  person  or  corporation  in  posses- 
sion of  lands  adjacent  to  or  in  the  neighborhood  of  said 
well  or  wells,  may  enter  upon  the  land  upon  which  said 
well  or  wells  are  situated,  and  take  possession  of  said  well 
or  wells,  and  plug  the  same  in  the  manner  provided  for 
in  section  3911,  at  their  own  expense. 

§  3914a.  Abandoned  oil  or  gas  well  to  be  closed — 
penalty.  It  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  person  or  persons, 
corporations  or  companies  to  abandon  any  oil  or  gas 
wells,  either  dry  or  producing,  in  this  Commonwealth,  or 
to  remove  casings  therefrom  whether  same  be  either  oil 
or  gas,  either  producing  or  dry,  or  for  any  cause  abandon 
said  well  or  wells  without  first  plugging  same  in  a  secure 
manner  by  placing  a  plug  of  pine,  poplar  or  some  other 
material  which  will  prevent  said  well  from  becoming 
flooded,  said  plug  to  be  placed  above  the  oil-producing 
sand  or  sands,  and  filled  in  above  for  the  distance  of 
seven  fe'et  with  sediment  or  clay  and  placing  upon  same 
another  plug  of  similar  material  as  that  of  the  first  and 
also  placing  about  ten  feet  below  the  said  casing  another 
plug  of  like  material  as  above  referred  to,  seven  feet  of 
sediment  or  clay,  and  then  another  plug,  all  plugs  to  be 
securely  driven  in  so  that  no  water  can  pass  the  same, 
before  the  casing  is  removed. 

Any  person  or  persons,  corporations  or  companies 
refusing  or  failing  to  comply  with  the  foregoing  provi- 
sions as  provided  for  in  section  1  herein,  shall,  on  convic- 
tion, be  fined  in  any  one  sum  not  less  than  one  hundred 
dollars,  or  not  more  than  one  'thousand  dollars,  in  the 
discretion  of  the  jury. 

All  acts  or  parts  of  acts  in  conflict  herewith  are  here- 
by repealed. 


APPENDIX  699 

PART  II. 
Kentucky  Form. 

OIL  AND  GAS  LEASE. 

AGREEMENT,  Made  and  entered  into  the 

day  of 191 by  and  between 


of  Party  of 

the  First  Part,  hereinafter  called  Lessor  (whether  one  or 

more )  and 

Party  of  the  Second  Part,  Lessee : 

WITNESSETH,  That  the  said  Lessor,  for  and  in  consid- 
eration of 

Dollars,  cash  in  hand  paid,  receipt  of  which  is  hereby  ac- 
knowledged, and  of  the  covenants  and  agreements  herein- 
after contained  on  the  part  of  Lessee,  to  be  paid,  kept  and 
performed,  has  granted,  demised,  leased  and  let,  and  by 
these  presents  does  grant,  demise  lease  and  let  unto  the 
said  Lessee,  for  the  sole  and  only  purpose  of  mining  and 
operating  for  oil  and  gas,  and  laying  pipe  lines,  and  build- 
ing tanks,  powers,  stations  and  structures  thereon  to  pro- 
duce, save  and  take  care  of  said  products,  all  that  certain 

tract  of  land  situate  in  the  County  of - 

State  of  Kentucky,  on  the  waters  of 

bounded  and  described  as  follows : 

On  the  North  by  the  lands  of..... ~ 

On  the  East  by  the  lands  of - 

On  the  South  by  the  lands  of - 

On  the  West  by  the  lands  of 

containing acres,  more  or 

less,  and  hereby  releasing  and  waiving  all  right  under  and 
by  virtue  of  the  Homestead  Exemption  Laws  of  this  State 
in  and  to  said  land. 

It  is  agreed  that  this  lease  shall  remain  in  force  for  a 
term  of  live  years  from  date,  and  as  long  thereafter  as  oil 
or  gas,  or  either  of  them,  is  produced  from  said  land  by 
the  Lessee. 

In  consideration  of  the  premises  the  said  Lessee  cov- 
enants and  agrees: 

1st.  To  deliver  to  the  credit  of  Lessor,  free  of  cost, 
into  tanks  or  in  the  pipe  line  to  which  he  may  connect  his 
wells,  the  equal  one-eighth  part  of  all  oil  produced  and 
saved  from  the  leased  premises. 


600       OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OP  KENTUCKY 

2nd.  To  pay  the  Lessor  Two  Hundred  Dollars  each 
year,  payable  quarterly  in  advance,  for  the  gas  from  each 
well  where  gas  only  is  found,  while  the  same  is  being 
used  off  the  premises,  and  Lessor  to  have  gas  free  of  cost 
from  any  such  well  for  all  stoves  and  all  inside  lights  in 
the  principal  dwelling  house  on  said  land  during  the  same 
time  by  making  his  own  connections  with  the  wells  at  his 
own  risk  and  expense. 

3rd.  To  pay  Lessor  for  gas  produced  from  any  oil 
well  and  used  off  the  premises  at  the  rate  of  Ten  Dollars 
per  year,  for  the  time  during  which  such  gas  shall  be  used, 
said  payments  to  be  made  each  three  month  in  advance. 

4th.  If  the  Lessee  shall  operate  any  such  well  for 
casing-head  gasoline,  then  the  Lessor  shall  receive  as 
royalty  thereon  one-eighth  (1-8)  part  of  the  market  value 
in  the  field  of  the  casing-head  gasoline  so  saved,  in  addi- 
tion to  the  royalty  to  which  he  may  be  entitled  from  the 
oil  produced  from  any  such  well. 

If  no  well  be  commenced  on  said  land  on  or  before  the 

day  of 

191 this  lease  shall  terminate  as  to  both  parties,  unless 

the  Lessee,  on  or  before  that  date,  shall  pay  or  tender  to 

in  the  manner 

hereinafter  provided,  the  sum  of 

DOLLAES,  which  shall  operate  as  a  rental  and  cover  the 
privilege  of  deferring  the  commencement  of  a  well  for 

months  from  said  date.     In  like  manner, 

and  upon  like  payments  or  tenders,  the  commencement  of 
a  well  may  be  further  deferred  for  like  period  of  the  same 
number  of  months  successively.  And  it  is  understood 
and  agreed  that  the  consideration  first  recited  herein,  the 
down  payment,  covers  not  only  the  privileges  granted  to 
the  date  when  the  said  first  rental  is  payable  as  aforesaid, 
but  also  the  Lessee's  option  of  extending  that  period  as 
aforesaid,  and  any  and  all  other  rights  conferred. 

All  rentals  or  money  due  hereunder  shall  be  paid  by 

Lessee's  check,  mailed,  postage  prepaid,  to 

at or  to Bank  of 

for  the  credit  of 

on  or  before  the  date  any  such  rental  shall  become  pay- 
able; said  Bank,  by  a  power  irrevocable,  is  hereby  made 
the  agent  of  Lessor  to  accept  all  rentals  paid  hereunder, 
and  the  same  shall  continue  as  the  depository  of  such 


APPENDIX  601 

rentals  during  the  life  of  this  lease,  regardless  of  changes 
in  the  ownership  of  said  land  or  said  rental. 

If  said  lessor  owns  a  less  interest  in  the  above  de- 
scribed land  than  the  entire  and  undivided  fee  simple 
estate  therein,  then  the  royalties  and  rentals  herein  pro- 
vided shall  be  paid  the  lessor  only  in  the  proportion  which 
his  interest  bears  to  the  whole  and  undivided  fee. 

Lessee  shall  have  the  right  to  use,  free  of  cost,  gas, 
oil  and  water  produced  on  said  land  for  its  operation 
thereon,  except  water  from  wells  of  lessor. 

When  requested  by  lessor,  lessee  shall  bury  its  pipe 
lines  below  plow  depth  in  cultivated  portions  of  land. 

No  well  shall  be  drillled  nearer  than  200  feet  of  the 
house  or  barn  now  on  said  premises,  without  written  con- 
sent of  the  lessor. 

Lessee  shall  pay  damages  caused  by  its  operations  to 
growing  crops  on  said  land. 

Lessee  shall  have  the  right  at  any  time  to  remove  all 
machinery  and  fixtures  placed  on  said  premises,  includ- 
ing the  right  to  draw  and  remove  casing. 

If  the  estate  of  either  party  hereto  is  assigned,  and 
the  privilege  of  assigning  in  whole  or  in  part  is  expressly 
allowed — the  covenants  hereof  shall  extend  to  their  heirs, 
executors,  administrators,  successors  or  assigns,  but  no 
change  in  the  ownership  of  the  land  or  assignment  of 
rentals  or  royalties  shall  be  binding  on  the  lessee  until 
after  the  lessee  has  been  furnished  with  a  written  trans- 
fer or  assignment  or  a  true  copy  thereof;  and  it  is  hereby 
agreed  in  the  event  this  lease  shall  be  assigned  as  to  a 
part  or  as  to  parts  of  the  above  described  lands  and  the 
assignee  or  assignees  of  such  part  or  parts  shall  fail  or 
make  default  in  the  payment  of  the  proportionate  part  of 
the  rents  due  from  him  or  them,  such  default  shall  not 
operate  to  defeat  or  affect  this  lease  in  so  far  as  it  covers 
a  <part  or  parts  of  said  lands  upon  which  the  said  lessee 
or  any  assignee  thereof  shall  make  duo  payment  of  said 
rental. 

Lessor  hereby  warrants  and  agrees  to  defend  the 
title  to  the  lands  herein  described,  and  agrees  that  the 
lessee  shall  have  the  right  at  any  time  to  redeem  for 
lessor,  by  payment,  any  mortgages,  taxes  or  any  oilier 
liens  on  the  above  described  lands,  in  the  event  of  default 


602       OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OP  KENTUCKY 

of  payment  by  lessor,  and  be  surrogated  to  the  rights  of 
the  holder  thereof. 

In  witness  whereof,  the  parties  have  set  their  hands 
and  seals  this  the  day  and  year  first  above  written.. 
WITNESS 


( ACKNOWLEDGMENT  TO  THE  LEASE) 

STATE  OF  KENTUCKY,    I  gg 

County  of ( 

County  Clerk, 

I, Notary  Public,  in  and  for  said 

County  and  State,  do  certify  that  this  instrument  of  writ- 
ing from : and  wife 

was  this  day  produced  to  me  in  my  county  by  the  parties 

and  acknowledged  by  said and 

= ,  his  wife,  to  be  their  act  arid 

deed  respectively. 

Given  under  my  hand  and  seal  of  office,  this 

day  of _ 191 

County  Clerk. 

Notary  Public. 

By Deputy  Clerk. 

My  commission  expires day  of.. : .191 

ASSIGNMENT. 
KNOW  ALL  MEN. BY  THESE  PRESENTS: 

That of 

State  of the  within  named  grant  ..„. 

in  consideration  of  the  sum  of 

Dollars  to in  hand  paid,  the  receipt  whereof  is 

hereby  acknowledged,  do hereby  sell,  assign,  trans- 
fer, set  over  and'  convey  unto heirs, 

and  assigns,  the  within  grant,  TO  HAVE  AND  TO 
HOLD  THE  SAME  FOKEVER,  subject  nevertheless,  to 
the  conditions  therein  contained. 

IN  WITNESS  WHEKEOF    The   said  grant ha here- 
unto set hand this day  of...... 

191..... 


APPENDIX  603 

ACKNOWLEDGMENT  TO  THE  ASSIGNMENT. 

I> Notary  Public,  in  and  for  said 

County  and  State,  do  certify  that  this  instrument  of  writ- 
ing from and  wife 

was  this  day  produced  to  me  in  my  county  by  the  parties 

and  acknowledged  by  said " and 

,  his  wife,  to  be  their  act  and 

deed  respectively. 

Given  under  my  hand  and  seal  of  oTice,  this  ... 

day  of 191 

Notary  Public. 

My  commission  expires day  of ....-1(0 

(Author's  Note — This  is  one  of  the  most  widely  used 
lease  forms  in  Kentucky). 

PART  III. 

Kentucky  Form. 

OIL  AND  GAS  DEED. 

THIS  AGREEMENT  AND  CONTRACT  entered  into  between 

County  of State  of the  grantors,  party 

of  the  first  part  and heirs  and  assigns 

party  of  the  second  part,  the  grantee. 

"WITNESSETH,  That  the  party  of  the  first  part  in  con- 
sideration of dollars  paid  by  the  party 

of  the  second  part,  the  receipt  of  payment  of  which  is  ac- 
knowledged, do hereby  grant  and  convey  unto  the 

party  of  the  second  part,  his  heirs  and  assigns  forever  the 

part  of  all  the  oil  and  gas  in  and  underlying 

or  produced  from  the  following  described  piece  or  parcel 
of  land  together  with  the  right  and  privilege  of  the  land 
for  oil  and  gas  and  asphalt,  which  land  is  situated  in 

County  of State  of 

Bounded  and  described  as  follows : 

On  the  North  by  the  lands  of  now  or  formerly 
On  the  East  by  the  lands  of  now  or  formerly 
On  the  South  by  the  lands  of  now  or  formerly 
On  the  West  by  the  lands  of  now  or  formerly 

Containing acres,  more  or  less,  subject  to  any 

valid  lease  for  oil  and  gas  now  on  the  land  while  the  same 
remain  in  force,  but  hereby  granting  and  conveying  the 
.part  of  all  oil  and  gas  royalty  and  routs  re- 
served in  and  under  said  land,  with  covenants  of  General 


604       OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

Warranty,  and  to  execute  such  other  and  further  assur- 
ances of  title  as  counsel  may  desire,  without  expense  to 
the  party  of  the  first  part. 

Dated  the day  of 191 

Witness  the  following  signature  and  seals : 


Seal 

NOTARY'S  CERTIFICATE. 
STATE  OF  KENTUCKY, 


County  of ...Jss' 

I, ,  a  Notary  Public,  in  and  for 

said  County,  in  the  State  aforesaid,  do  hereby  certify  that 

personally  known  to  me  to 

be  the  same  person whose  name 

subscribed  to  the  foregoing  instrument,  appeared 
before  me  this  day  in  person,  and  in  said  County, 

and    acknowledged    that    he signed,    sealed,    and 

delivered  the  instrument  as free  and  voluntary  act, 

for  uses  and  purposes  therein  set  forth,  including  the  re- 
lease and  waiver  of  right  of  homestead,  dower  and  other 
rights. 

Given  under  my  hand  this -day  of 191 

: , Clerk County   Court 

By  ...  Deputy  Clerk 

RECORDATIOET. 

STATE  OF  KENTUCKY, 

County  of 

I, ,  Clerk  of  the  County  Court 

within  and  for County,  Kentucky,  certify  that 

the  foregoing  instrument  of  writing  from 

to was  produced  to  me  in  my  office 

and  State  tax  paid  thereon,  the day  of 1917, 

whereupon  the  same  with  this  and  the  foregoing  certifi- 
cates were  duly  admitted  to  record  in  my  office. 

Given  under  my  hand  this day  of 191 

Clerk County  Court 

By Deputy  Clerk 


APPENDIX  605 

ASSIGNMENT. 

For  Full  and  Valuable  Consideration,  the  receipt  of 

which  is  hereby  acknowledged, does 

hereby  assign  and  transfer  to 

this  grant. 

Witness  my  signature,  this day  of 


STATE  OF  KENTUCKY, 

County  of Jss> 

Before  me  the  undersigned  authority  within  and  for 
above   named   County   and   State,  -personally    appeared 

who  acknowledged  that  lie  did 

sign  the  above  assignment  and  transfer  for  the  uses  and 
purposes  therein  contained. 

IN  WITNESS  WHEREOF,  I  have  hereunto  affixed  my  signa- 
ture and  official  seal,  on  the  date  last  above  written. 

PART  IV. 

AGREEMENT. 

THIS  AGREEMENT,  made  and  entered  into  this  the 

day  of 191 by  and  between 

and his 

wife,  who  reside  on. the  water  of in........ 

County,  State  of  Kentucky,  parties  of  the  first  part  and 
hereinafter  called  the  "Grantors,"  which  expression 
shall  include  their  heirs  and  assigns,  where  the  context  so 

requires  or  admits,  and  of 

County,  Kentucky,  as  party  of  the  second  part,  and  here- 
inafter called  the  "Grantee,"  which  expression  shall  in- 
clude his  heirs,  successors,  vendees  and  assigns  where  the 
context  so  requires  or  admits. 

WITNESSETH:  That  for  and  in  consideration  of  $ 

cash  in  hand  paid,  receipt  of  which  is  hereby  ac- 
knowledged, and  as  first  payment  upon  the  sum  of 
$ per  acre,  pins  oilier  good  and  val- 

uable consideration,  for  the  property  rights  and  priv- 
ileges in,  of,  to,  on,  under,  concerning  or  appur- 
tenant to  the  hereinafter  described  tract  of  land, 
balance  whereof  is  to  be  paid  one  year  I'min 
this  date  and  when  the  amount  thereof  is  ascertained  and 


606       OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

conveyed  as  hereinafter  stated,  the  "Grantor"  has  sold 
and  hereby  agrees  to  convey  to  the  "Grantee"  as  herein- 
after provided,  all  the  coal,  minerals  and  mineral  pro- 
ducts, all  oils  and  gases,  all  fire  and  -potters  clay,  all  iron 
and  iron  ore,  all  stone,  and  such  of  the  standing  timber 
as  may  be,  or  by  the  ' '  Grantee, ' '  be  deemed  necessary  for 
mining  purposes,  and  including  timber  necessary  for  rail- 
roads, or  branch  lines  thereof,  that  may  hereafter  be  con- 
structed upon  the  said  lands,  and  the  exclusive  rights-of- 
way  for  any  and  all  railroads  and  ways,  and  pipe,  tele- 
graph and  telephone  lines  that  may  hereafter  be  located 
on  said  property  by  the  "Grantee,"  their  heirs,  succes- 
sors, vendees  or  assigns,  or  by  any  person  or  corporation 
under  authority  of  said  "Grantee,"  or  assigns  in,  of, 
under,  concerning  or  appurtenant  to  the  hereinafter  de- 
scribed tract  of  land,  together  with  the  right  to  enter 
upon  said  lands,  use  and  operate  the  same  and  surface 
thereof  and  make  use  of  and  for  this  purpose  divert 
water  courses  thereon,  in  any  and  every  manner  that  may 
be  deemed  necessary  or  convenient  for  mining,  and  there- 
from removing  or  otherwise  utilizing  the  products  of  said 
minerals,  and  for  the  transportation  therefrom  of  said 
articles,  and  the  rights  of  use  of  such,  as  well  for  the  re- 
moval of  the  -products  taken  out  of  any  other  land,  owned 
or  hereafter  acquired  by  the  "Grantee,"  and  the  right  to 
erect  upon  the  said  land,  maintain,  use  and  at  pleasure 
remove  therefrom,  all  such  buildings  and  structures  as 
may  be  necessary  or  convenient  to  the  exercise  and  enjoy- 
ment of  the  rights  and  privileges  herein  and  in  the  use  of 
said  land  and  surface  thereof  by  the  "Grantee,"  he,  his 
heirs,  successors,  vendees  or  assigns  shall  be  free  from 
and  are  hereby  released  from  liability  or  claim  of  damage 
to  the  said  "Grantors,"  personal  representative,  heirs 
and  assigns.  Free  access  to,  upon  and  over  the  said  land 
is  hereby  conferred  upon  the  ' '  Grantee ' '  for  the  purpose 
of  surveying  and  prospecting  the  aforesaid  property  and 
interest,  but  there  is  reserved  in  this  agreement,  and  to  be 
reserved  also  in  the  deed  made  pursuant  hereto,  to  the 
"Grantors"  all  the  timber  upon  the  said  land,  except  that 
necessary  for  mining  and  the  purposes  hereinbefore  men- 
tioned, and  the  free  use  of  land  for  agricultural  purposes 
so  far  as  such  use  is  consistent  with  the  rights  hereby 
sold  and  the  right  to  mine  and  use  coal  for  his  own  house- 
hold and  domestic  purposes. 


APPENDIX  607 

Before  the  " Grantors"  can  demand  as  matter  of 
strict  right,  the  payment  of  said  deferred  purchase 
money,  the  number  of  acres  thereof  is  to  be  determined 
by  actual  survey,  made  by,  or  under  the  direction  of  a 
competent  civil  engineer,  at  the  expense  of  the  "  Gran- 
tors," and  the  " Grantors"  shall  furnish  a  complete  ab- 
stract showing  title  in  them,  and  thereupon  convey  or 
tender  to  the  "Grantee"  deed  containing  covenants  of 
general  warranty,  and  the  further  covenants  that  they 
are  seized  in  fee  simple  of  said  land  of  the  rights  there- 
under, in  actual  possession  thereof,  and  have  good  right 
and  full  power  and  authority  to  convey  the  same,  and  that 
the  "Grantee"  shall  and  may  have,  hold  and  enjoy  the 
rights  granted,  free  from  eviction  or  disturbance  by  title 
paramount  to  that  conveyed  by  the  said  deed,  and  that 
the  land,  including  the  interests  hereby  sold  and  thereby 
conveyed,  are  free  from  all  liens  or  encumbrances;  con- 
cerning which  covenants  it  is  hereby  expressly  declared, 
that  representation  as  to  the  same  and  the  aforesaid 
terms  of  said  warrant y  to  be  made,  are  declared  an  essen- 
tial condition  and  moving  consideration  for  the  execution 
of  this  agreement. 

The  following  is  a  description  of  the  lands  and  prop- 
erty referred  to  as  the  subject  matter  of  this  piece  of 
writing,  situate  in County,  State  of  Ken- 
tucky, on  the  waters  of Bounded  as 

follows : 

On  the  North  by  the  lands  of. 

On  the  East  by  the  lands  of 

On  the  South  by  the  lands  of........ 

On  the  West  by  the  lands  of 

and  further 

IN  TESTIMONY  WHEREOF  the  said 

and  his  wife,  have  hereunto 

set  their  hands  and  seals,  the  day  and  year  first  above 
written,  and  the  said  "Grantee"  has  hereunto  caused  his 

name  to  be  affixed. 

(Seal) 

„ -(Seal) 

I (Seal) 

IIZH (s 

WITNESS 


608       OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

ACKNOWLEDGMENT. 

STATE  OF  KENTUCKY,          1  TO-WIT  : 
County  of J 

I, a  Notary  Public  in  and  for 

the  County  and  State  aforeasid,  certify  that 

and his  wife,  who  *e 

names  are  signed  to  the  writing  hereto  annexed,  bearing 
date  the day  of 191 ,  this  day  acknowl- 
edged the  same  before  me  in  my  County  aforesaid.  My 

commission  as  Notary  Public  will  expire  on  the 

day  of 191 

Given  under  my  hand  and  seal  of  office  this 

day  of 191 


Notary  Public  in  and  for  the  County  and  State  aforesaid. 

STATE  OF  KENTUCKY,         lTo.WIT . 
County  of J 

I, ,  County  Clerk  in  and  for  the 

County  and  State  aforesaid,  certify  that 

and his  wife,  whose  names  are  signed 

to  the  writing  above  bearing  date  the day  of 

191 ,  this  day  acknowledged  the  same  before  me  in  my 

county  aforesaid. 

Given  under  my  hand  this day  of 191 


County  Clerk  in  and  for  the  County  and  State  aforesaid. 

STATE  OF  KENTUCKY,          1  To_WIT . 

County  of J 

I, ,  County  Clerk  in  and  for 

the  foregoing  County  and  State  aforesaid,  certify  that  the 

foregoing  instrument  of  writing  from 

and his  wife,  to 

bearing  date  this day  of ,  191 ,  was  this 

day  produced  before  me  in  said  County  and  State  and  the 
acknowledgment  thereof  by  the  said  grantors  duly  proved 

as  required  by  law  by  the  oath  of one 

of  the  subscribing  witnesses  thereto,  who  having  first 
been  duly  sworn  by  me  testified  that  said  instrument  was 
signed  in  his  presence  and  in  the  presence  of 


APPENDIX  609 

the  other  subscribing  witness  thereto,  by  the  grantors, 
and  that  they  as  subscribing  witnesses  signed  their 
names  as  attesting  witnesses  thereto  at  the  request  of 

said  grantors and in  their 

presence  and  in  the  presence  of  each  other. 

Given  under  my  hand  this day  of 191 

County  Clerk  in  and  for  the  County  and  State  aforesaid, 
RECORDATIOX. 

STATE  OF  KENTUCKY,         TT<MVIT  • 
County  of J 

I, Clerk  of  the  County  Court  in  and 

for  the  County  and  State  aforesaid,  do  certify  that  the 

foregoing  instrument  of  writing  from 

and his  wife,  to 

bearing  date  the day  of 191 ,  was  this  day 

lodged  in  my  office  for  record,  whereupon  the  same,  to- 
gether with  this  and  the  foregoing  certificate,  have  been 
duly  recorded  in  my  office. 

Witness  my  hand  this day  of 191 

Clerk 

By Deputy 

(Authors  Note — This  Agreement  form  is  essentially 
a  Title  Bond). 

PART  V. 
ASSIGNMENT  OF  OIL  AND  GAS  LEASE. 

WHEREAS,  On  the day  of 191 ,  a  cer- 
tain oil  and  gas  mining  lease  was  made  and  entered  into- 

by  and  between Lessor..., 

Lessee...,  covering  the  follow- 
ing described  land  in  the  County  of and  State- 

of to-wit: 

Said  lease  being  recorded  in  the  office  of  the  Register 

of  Deeds  in  and  for  said  County  in  Book ,  page , 

and 

WHEREAS,  The  said  lease  and  all  rights  thereunder  or 
incident  thereto  are  now  owned  l>y 

Now,  THEREFORE,  For  and  in  consideration  of  One 
Dollar  (and  other  good  and  valuable  considerations),  the 
receipt  of  which  is  hereby  acknowledged,  the  iinder- 

Oil  &  Gas— 20 


610       OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

signed,  the  present  owner of  the   said  lease   and  all 

rights  thereunder  or  incident  thereto,  do hereby  bar- 
gain, sell,  transfer,  assign  and  convey  unto 

of right,  title  and  interest  of  the  original  lessee 

and  present  owner in  and  to  said  lease  and  rights  there- 
under insofar  as  it  covers  the together 

with  all  personal  property  used  or  obtained  in  connec- 
tion therewith  to and heirs, 

successors  and  assigns. 

And  for  the  same  consideration,  the  undersigned  for 
and heirs,  successors  and  representa- 
tives, .do covenant  with  the  said  assignee heirs, 

•successors  or  assigns  that the  lawful  owner 

of  the  said  lease  and  rights  and  interests  thereunder  and 
of  the  personal  property  thereon  or  used  in  connection 
therewith ;  that  the  undersigned good  right  and  auth- 
ority to  sell  and  convey  the  same,  and  that  said  rights, 
interest  and  property  are  free  and  clear  from  all  liens 
and  incumbrances,  and  that  all  rentals  and  royalties  due 
and  payable  thereunder  have  been  duly  paid. 

tsr  WITNESS  WHEREOF,  The  undersigned  owner and 

assignor ha signed  and  sealed  this  instrument  this 

day  of 191 

(Seal) 

(Seal) 

(Seal) 

OKLAHOMA  FORM  OF  ACKNOWLEDGMENT 
STATE  OF  OKLAHOMA, 
County  of 

On  this day  of ,  A.  D.,  191 ,  before 

me,  the  undersigned,  Notary  Public  in  and  for  the  County 

and  State  aforesaid,  personally  appeared 

to  me  known  to  be  the  identical  person.-  who  executed  the 
within  and  foregoing  instrument  and  acknowledged  to  me 
that he executed  the  same  as  h free  and  volun- 
tary act  and  deed  for  the  uses  and  purposes  therein  set 
forth. 

Given  under  my  hand  and  seal  of  office  the  day  and 
year  last  above  written. 
My  commission  expires 

Notary  Public. 


APPENDIX 


KANSAS  FORM  OF  ACKNOWLEDGMENT 
STATE  OF  KANSAS,  1 

County  of  ............................................................  jss 

BE  IT  REMEMBERED,  That  on  this  ...............  day  of  ...... 

A-  D-  191  .....  ,  before  me,  a  Notary  Public  in  and  for  said 

County  and  State,  came  ..........................................  and  .....................................  . 

wn°        personally  known  to  me  to  be  the  same  person  ...... 

who  executed  the  within   and  foregoing  instrument  of 
writing  and  as  such  person  ......  duly  acknowledged  the  exe- 

cution of  the  same. 

I*  WITNESS  WHEREOF,  I  have  hereunto  set  my  hand 
And  affixed  my  notarial  seal  the  day  and  year  last  above 
written. 
My  commission  expires  .............................. 


Notary  Public. 

ACKNOWLEDGMENT  FOR  CORPORATION. 
STATE  OF 

County  of j 

On  this day  of ,  A.  D.  191 ,  before 

me,  the  undersigned,  a  Notary  Public  in  and  for  the 

County  and  State  aforesaid,  personally  appeared 

and to  me  known  to  be  the  identical  person 

who  subscribed  the  name  of  the  maker  thereof  to  the  fore- 
going instrument  as  its and  acknowl- 
edged to  me  that  lie  executed  the  same  as  his  free  and  vol- 
untary act  and  deed,  and  as  the  free  and  voluntary  act 
and  deed  of  such  corporation,  for  the  uses  and  purposes 
herein  set  forth. 

Given  under  mv  hand  and  seal  of  office  the  day  and 
year  last  above  written. 
My  commission  expires 

Notary  Public. 


GLOSSARY. 


TERMS  AND  METHODS,    AS    APPLIED    IN    THE 
OIL  AND  GAS  INDUSTRY. 

Crude  Oil. — The  raw  oil  product  as  it  comes  from  the 
well. 

Fuel  Oil. — The  residue  from  the  crude  oil  after  the 
gasoline  has  been  extracted.  Used  as  fuel  by  railroads, 
steamships,  factories  and  heating  plants. 

Oil  Sand. — This  term  refers  to  the  thick  layers  of 
porous  rock  found  at  various  depths  below  the  surface  or 
the  earth.  This  oil  sand  or  porous  sandstone  is  nature's 
store-house  for  crude  oil.  Usually  the  thicker  these  lay- 
ers of  sand  are  the  greater  the  production  and  the  longer 
the  life  of  the  oil  well. 

Derrick-Standard. — The  tall  framework  which  must 
be  constructed  before  the  drilling  of  a  deep  well  can  start. 
The  average  height  of  the  standard  derrick  is  seventy-five 
feet.  The  great  height  is  necessary  on  account  of  the 
length  of  the  drilling  tools  which  must  be  lowered  into 
and  hoisted  out  of  the  wrells. 


A  STANDARD  RIG  NEAR  ESTILL  FURNACE. 
In  the  deeper  drilling  sections  of  the  Estill-Lee-Powell  Field  drill- 
ing rigs  of  this  type  secure  better  results  than  the  portable  ons.   Photo 
by  W.  R.  Jillscn,  1917. 

612 


GLOSSARY 


613 


Rig.— The  derrick  and  all  that  goes  with  it;  the  drill- 
ing apparatus. 

Portable  Rig. — Movable  drilling  machine  used  for 
shallow  and  medium  shallow  wells— five  hundred  to  four- 
ten  hundred  feet. 


A  PORTABLE  DRILLING  RIG  ON  BIG  SINKING. 
In  many  parts  of  this  notable  Kentucky  Oil  Field,  portable  rigs 
like  the  one  seen  above  secure  quite  as  good  results  as  the  more  costly 
Standard  rigs. 

Drilling  Tools. — The  steel  bit  about  six  feet  long, 
the  steel  beam  about  thirty  feet  long  and  the  steel  jars 
about  six  feet  long,  which  are  all  firmly  fastened  to  the 
end  of  the  drilling  cable.  The  combined  weight  of  these 
tools  is  from  four  thousand  to  eight  thousand  pounds, 
depending  upon  the  length  and  diameter  of  the  stem. 

Bailer. — This  is  a  steel  bucket,  usually  about  thirty 
feet  long  and  from  five  to  eight  inches  in  diameter.  It  is 
used  in  bailing  out  water  and  gravel  produced  by  the 
drill.  The  bailer  has  a  false  bottom,  which  i-  nii-.-d 
when  it  touches  the  bottom  of  the  well,  allows  the  bailer 
to  fill  up  with  water,  sand  and  gravel,  and  immediately 
•closes  when  the  bailer  is  lifted.  This  mud,  water  and 
sand  are  emptied  into  a  pond  at  the  side  of  the  riir  m-  der- 
rick. The  small  particles  of  sand  or  gravel  which  come 
up  in  the  bailer  are  carefully  examined  by  the  driller,  who 


614       OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

should  keep  an  exact  record  of  the  formation  found  at 
every  foot  of  the  well  depth. 

Casing. — Twenty-foot  joints  of  steel  pipe  which  is 
used  to  case  out  water  and  prevent  caving  of  the  wells  in 
drilling.  This  casing  is  used  in  all  sizes  from  sixteen 
inch  down  to  four  inches  in  diameter.  The  twenty-foot 
joints  are  fastened  together  as  they  are  lowered  into  the 
well.  Casing  begins  from  the  top  of  the  ground  and  each 
time  a  string  of  casing  goes  into  the  wells  the  size  of  the 
drill  bit  must  be  reduced,  to  go  inside  of  the  casing. 
Each  string  of  casing  must  start  from  the  top  of  the  well. 
From  two  to  a  half-dozen  or  more  different  sizes  of  cas- 
ings are  used  in  each  well — one  string  inside  the  other. 
If  the  well  is  a  producer,  the  inside  string  of  casing  is  left 
in  the  well  and  the  other  casing  removed.  If  the  well  is 
a  non-producer,  all  of  the  casing  is  lifted  out  of  the  well 
and  used  again. 

Bonus  Money. — If  a  land  owner  has  a  .piece  of  land  in 
t  location  highly  approved  by  geologists  or  close  to  pro- 
ducing oil  wells,  he  requires  the  lessee  to  pay  him,  in 
addition  to  one-eighth  royalty,  a  bonus  of  from  one  dol- 
lar to  as  high  as  one  hundred  dollars  or  more  per  acre 
for  the  privilege  of  securing  the  lease.  This  bonus  money 
gives  the  lessee  one  year  in  which  to  begin  drilling  on  the 
land.  If  the  drilling  is  not  started  within  a  specified 
time,  the  lease  may  be  cancelled  or  rentals  are  paid  at  the 
rate  of  one  dollar  or  more  per  acre  per  annum. 

Assignment. — The  legal  instrument  which  is  issued 
when  the  lease  owner  transfers  to  an  individual  or  cor- 
poration all  or  part  ownership  in  any  lease. 

Production.— The  term  used  in  designating  the  crude 
oil  product  of  oil  wells.  When  producing  wells  are  dis- 
posed of,  they  are  usually  sold  on  the  basis  of  the  average 
total  daily  production  of  all  the  wells  producing  oil  on  the 
lease.  In  referring  to  a  given  well  or  lease  as  having 
such  and  such  production  reference  is  made  to  the  daily 
production. 

Settled  Production. — The  average  total  daily  produc- 
tion from  all  the  wells  on  any  oil  lease  where  the  wells 
have  been  producing  for  four  months  to  a  year  or  more. 
A  ten-day  gauge  for  all  the  wells  on  the  property  is 
usually  taken  in  order  to  determine  the  actual  average 
settled  production  per  day  so  as  to  arrive  at  a  settlement 


GLOSSARY 


615 


PRODUCING  WELL  AND  STORAGE  TANK  ON  THE  JACK  WELLS 
LEASE,    IRVINE    POOL   EXTENSION. 

Photo  by  McClure,  Lexington. 

price.  At  this  time  settled  production  in  Kentucky  is 
selling  for  as  much  as  one  thousand  to  fifteen  hundred 
dollars  per  ham-!. 

Flush  I'rndm-tion. — Flush  production  means  the 
early,  first  production — the  maximum  production.  This 
usually  settles  down  to  about  one-tenth  in  the  ordinary 
well.  To  illustrate:  A  well  tint  was  "shot"  and  brought 
in  a  five  hundred  barrel  flush  production  will  usuallv  in 
most  cases,  settle  down  in  a  matter  of  three  to  thirty  days 
to  about  fifty  barrels  per  day  "settled  production." 

I' dine  of  an  Oil  Well. — A  producing  oil  well  sells  on 
the  basis  of  about  one  thousand  dollars  per  day,  for  each 
barrel  settled  production — some  claim  fifteen  hundred 
dollars  per  day.  For  example — If  one  owned  a  well  with 
a  settled  production  of  one  thousand  barrels  per  day,  one 
should  be  able  to  sell  the  same  for  a|  pr«i\imati-ly  $1,000,- 
000  to  $1,500,000. 

Life  of  an  Oil  Well.— Nc  man  can  tell  how  long  .1 
given  well  will  produce  a  given  production.  Old  oil  men 
usually  say  that  a  fair  production  will  be  kept  up  for  ten. 


€16 


OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 


THE  FAMOUS  ANGIE  McREYNOLDS  GUSHER. 
This  well  at  the  time  it  drilled  into  the  pay  produced  an  estimated 
1,500  barrels.   All  of  the  wells  on  this  lease  were  shut  down  to  provide 
immediate  storage  for  it.    Photo  by  W.  R.  Jillson,  July  20,  1919. 

years.  Usually  wells  of  a  gusher  character,  with  big  pro- 
duction, gradually  slacken  off.  There  are  many  wells  that 
have  been  producing  for  thirty  and  forty  years  or  more, 
in  the  State  of  Kentucky. 

First  Oil  Well— The  first  oil  well  in  Kentucky  was 
drilled  in  1819  by  Martin  Beatty,  of  Abington,  Virginia, 
on  the  South  Fork  of  the  Cumberland  River  in  what  was 
then  Wayne,  but  is  now  McCreary  County,  Kentucky.  It 
was  a  shallow  well  and  was  not  drilled  with  the  purpose 
of  securing  oil  but  salt  brine.  Rock  oil  or  petroleum  was 
then  unknown. 

The  Deepest  Oil  Well. — According  to  reliable  infor- 
mation, the  deepest  oil  well  in  the  world  at  the  present 
time,  has  been  drilled  seven  thousand  three  hundred  and 
sixty-three  feet  in  Northern  West  Virginia. 

Oil  Royalty. — An  individual  owns  a  piece  of  land, 
usually  farm  land.  For  a  certain  sum,  he  gives  the  lease 
for  the  oil  and  gas  possibilities  on  this  land  to  some  oil 
producer.  The  producing  company  agrees  to  pay  him  a 
cash  rental,  per  acre,  per  year,  until  oil  is  brought  in,  in 
paying  quantities.  When  the  producing  company  drills 
a  well  and  gets  oil  in  paying  quantities,  the  cash  rental 


GLOSSARY  617 

for  the  lease  ceases,  but  in  place  thereof,  the  owner  of  the 
land  gets  one-eighth  of  the  oil  produced  on  his  land;  the 
producing  company  gets  seven-eighths.  The  pipe  line 
companies,  who  operate  separately  and  distinctly  from 
the  producing  companies,  take  the  oil  from  the  land  and 
settle  with  the  owner  of  the  land  and  the  producing  com- 
pany twice  every  month.  The  pipe  line  companies  send 
a  check  for  one-eighth  of  the  oil,  which  is  the  oil  royalty, 
to  the  owner  of  the  land,  and  send  a  check  for  seven- 
eighths  to  the  producing  company  who  own  the  lease. 
The  owner  of  the  land  has  no  expense  of  drilling  or  oper- 
ation, but  gets  his  "royalty"  as  rental  for  his  land. 

Demand  For  Oil. — The  demand  for  oil  is  "legiti- 
mate.'' More  than  that,  it  is  permanent,  and  is  likely  to 
increase.  There  is  consumed  to-day  ten  times  the  quan- 
tity consumed  ten  years  ago.  Automobiles,  auto  trucks, 
railroads,  airplanes,  farm  tractors,  steamships,  etc.,  are 
the  consuming  agencies.  In  another  ten  years  the  de- 
mand should  be  ten  times  what  it  is  to-day.  Sea  carriers 
have  only  recently  begun  to  discard  coal  as  a  fuel.  Oil 
as  fuel  has  every  advantage.  It  is  said  that  the  steam- 
ships of  the  world  alone  could  use  every  barrel  of  oil  pro- 
duced to-day.  Oil  is  the  automotive  force  of  to-day  and 
tomorrow. 

Shooting  a  Well. — After  a  well  is  drilled  and  reaches 
the  oil  sand,  if  this  sand  is  found  to  be  "tight"  or  com- 
pact, it  may  be  loosened  by  a  method  termed  "shooting." 
This  is  done  in  the  following  way.  A  block  of  tin  tubing 
(especially  prepared  for  nitroglycerin  purposes  of  six- 
foot  length)  is  inserted  in  the  casing  and  allowed  to  go 
down  until  it  reaches  the  top  of  the  pay  sand.  The  nitro- 
glycerin is  poured  into  this  special  tube.  The  amount 
of  nitroglycerin  used  depends  on  the  depth  or  thickness 
of  the  oil  sand.  There  are  two  methods  used  in  exploding 
this  nitroglycerin.  One  is  by  hand  fuse,  which  is  timed ; 
the  other  is  by  an  electric  spark,  this  is  let  off  through  the 
batteries.  This  explosion  fractures  the  sand,  thereby  re- 
leasing the  oil. 

Initial  Production. — The  amount  of  oil  produced  l>y 
a  well  during  the  first  twenty-four  hours  after  it  has  been 
drilled  in. 

Test  Well. — The  first  well  to  be  drilled  on  an  unde- 
veloped lease. 


618       OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

Dry  Well. — A  well  is  called  "dry"  when  it  does  not 
produce  crude  oil.  A  dry  well  in  Kentucky  means  the 
loss  of  from  one  thousand  to  fifteen  thousand  dollars  or 
more  invested  in  the  expense  of  drilling.  The  lease  may 
be  a  separate  loss. 

Duster. — Another  term  for  a  dry  well. 

Gasser. — A  well  producing  gas. 

Salt  Water  Well— A  well  that  finds  the  "pay""  sand 
filled  with  salt  water  instead  of  oil. 

Wildcatting. — The  occupation  of  searching  for  gas 
or  oil  in  undeveloped  territory. 

Wildcatter. — The  pioneer  in  the  oil  and  gas  business, 
he  who  does  the  costly  prospecting  in  unproven  territory. 
The  nerve,  faith,  and  money  of  this  group  of  men  have 
brought  into  existence  practically  every  great  producing 
oil  and  gas  pool  in  the  world. 

Tank  Farm. — A  tract  of  land  sometimes  only  a  few- 
acres,  sometimes  several  hundred  acres  on  which  are 
erected  large  steel  storage  tanks  used  by  the  oil  refineries 
and  the  big  producing  corporations. 


OIL  STORAGE  AND  DRILLING. 

View  of  the  property  of  the  Bourbon  Oil  and  Gas  Company,  on 
Ross  Creek  (J.  F.  Harris  farm),  Estill  County,  Ky.  Photo  by  R.  L. 
McClure,  March,  1919. 

Storage  Tanks. — Large  steel  or  wooden  tanks  which 
have  a  capacity,  usually  from  two  hundred  and  fifty  bar- 


GLOSSARY  61fr 

rels  to  fifty-five  thousand  barrels.  A  ten  thousand  barrel 
tank,  in  Lee  County,  is  the  largest  in  the  State  of  Ken- 
tucky. The  oil  from  the  wells  on  a  lease  is  pumped  into  a 
small  receiving  tank.  As  fast  as  this  tank  is  filled  up 
the  oil  is  gauged  and  run  to  the  storage  tanks.  The  big 
pipe  line  companies  and  oil  producing  companies  run 
their  lines  direct  to  these  tanks.  As  fast  as  they  are 
filled  the  oil  is  gauged  and  emptied  into  the  pipe  lines. 
A  run  ticket  certificate  as  to  the  exact  number  of  barrels 
of  oil  taken  out  of  each  tank  is  issued  to  the  lease  owner 
by  the  purchasing  company  or  the  pipe  line  company. 

Pumphuj  Station. — A  house  containing  an  engine 
and  pumping  machinery,  which  is  used  to  'pump  the  wells 
on  a  lease  where  pumping  is  necessary.  Pumping  equip- 
ment is  installed  over  each  well  and  connected  by  iron 
rods  to  the  central  station  and  this  one  station  furnishes 
the  power  which  pumps  all  of  the  wells. 

Lease  Man. — The  man  in  charge  of  the  pump  station 
and  all  tlie  gauging  on  each  lease.  This  man  earns  from 
seventy-five  to  two  hundred  and  fifty  dollars  per  month, 
depending  on  the  number  of  wells  and  the  amount  of  pro- 
duction. This  is  about  the  only  operating  expense  con- 


DRILLERS  QUARTERS. 

An   important   part   of   the   equipment  of  the   rapidly   developini 
portions  of  Se  Irvine  Pool  extension.    Photo  by  Mc^&re,  Lexington. 


620       OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OF  KENTUCKY 

nected  with  oil  producing  leases  after  the  wells  have  been 
completed  and  equipped. 

Drilling  Crew. — A  drilling  crew  consists  of  four  men, 
the  driller,  the  engineer,  helper  and  tool  dresser.  These 
crews  work  in  twelve-hour  shifts,  called  towers.  Two 
crews  are  used  in  drilling  each  well,  and  drilling  opera- 
tions seldom  cease  from  the  tune  the  well  is  started  until 
it  is  completed. 

Brought  In. — The  term  used  after  an  oil  well  has 
been  completed  and  the  oil  is  being  actually  produced. 

Flowing  Well. — An  oil  well  that  flows  naturally  of  its 
own  force  without  the  aid  of  a  pump. 

Pump  Well. — An  oil  well  that  requires  the  aid  of 
pump  to  bring  the  oil  to  the  surface. 


COMPLETED  OIL  WELL  ON  PUMP  AND  LINE. 
View  of  the  Moss  St.  John  farm  in  Lee  County,  Kentucky.    This 
property  is  operated  by  the  Big  Sinking  Oil  Company,  of  Lexington, 
Ky. 

Gusher. — An  oil  well  of  tremendous  force  and  excep- 
tionally large  production.  Any  large  well  which  on  being 
brought  in  flows  naturally,  an  artesian  oil  well. 

Casing  Head  Gas. — Wet  gas,  escaping  from  oil  wells. 
During  past  few  years,  many  plants  have  been  erected  to 
extract  the  gasoline  from  casing  head  gas. 


GLOSSARY 


621 


Deep  Test. — First  deep  well  drilling  on  certain  lease 
or  in  a  certain  section  to  prove  up  a  deep  pay  stand 
strata. 

Proven  Lease. — A  lease  which  has  producing  oil  wells 
on  it. 

Offset  Well. — If  a  producing  well  is  brought  in  with- 
in a  certain  distance,  usually  between  two  and  three  hun- 
dred and  fifty  feet  of  an  adjoining  lease,  the  lessor,  or  the 
producing  company  leasing  this  adjoining  lease,  is  gener- 
ally obliged  to  drill  within  a  given  time,  usually  sixty 
days.  This  well  is  called  an  offset  well.  The  state  oil  in- 
spector in  many  states,  notifies  the  producing  company  on 
the  adjoining  lease  that  it  is  necessary  to  drill  an  offset 
well.  This  law  is  based  on  the  theory  that  a  well  within  a 
certain  distance  will  drain  some  of  the  oil  from  the  ad- 
joining property.  The  offset  law  protects  the  property 
owner.  It  is  the  bane  of  many  a  lease  man.  In  many 
states  a  party  or  company  leasing  a  certain  property  are 
notified  that  they  must  drill  an  offset  well  within  a  cer- 
tain time,  and  if  they  fail  to  do  it,  they  forfeit  their  lease 


OFFSET  WELLS  DRILLED  TOO  CLOSE. 

Less  then  twenty-five  feet  separate  these  two  wells  on  the  Y. 
Oliver  and  T.  Oliver  -properties  in  the  Gainesville  pool.  Within  a 
circle  with  a  diameter  of  four  hundred  feet,  the  author  counted  12 
producting  wells.  Photo  by  W.  R.  Jillson,  July  10,  1919. 


622       OIL  AND  GAS  RESOURCES  OP  KENTUCKY 

to  the  property,  and  the  owner  of  same  can  release  to 
someone  else. 

Origin  of  Oil  and  Gas. — The  question  of  the  origin 
of  oil  and  gas  has  been  discussed  many  times  and  from 
many  different  standpoints,  but  no  one  theory  of  origin 
has  ever  found  universal  acceptance.  Some  geolo- 
gists believe  that  oil  and  gas  were  part  of  the  original 
earth  material  and  others  believe  that  they  were  formed 
from  the  decay  of  plant  or  animal  life.  Another  com- 
mon belief  is  that  metallic  carbides  come  in  contact  with 
water  and  form  hydrocarbons  which,  on  contact  with 
great  heat  and  pressure,  are  forthwith  changed  into  oil 
and  gas.  The  organic  theory  has  the  most  universal  ac- 
ceptance of  scientific  men. 


CREST    TEMPLE   HILL  ANTICLINE. 

The  view  is  in  the  big  bend  of  Skaggs  Creek  on  the  Smith  farm, 
about  ten  miles  south  of  Glasgow,  Barren  County,  Ky.  This  struc- 
ture was  discovered  by  the  author,  March  4,  1919.  Photo  by  Chas. 
Butts,  1919. 


FLOWING  WELL  ON  MARTHA  REYNOLDS  LEASE. 
This  well  came  in  flowing  approximately  1,200  barrels  per  day. 
On  December  5,  1918,  three  months  later  it  was  judged  at  four  hundred 
barrels.    It  is  located   in  Big  Sinking  Creek,  Lee  County,  Kentucky. 
Photo  by  R.  L.  McClure,  March,  1919. 


INDEX 


ACKNOWLEDGMENT;     oil      and      gas, 

form,    608. 

ADAIR  CO.:  Cincinnati  Arch  in,  97,  de- 
scribed, 116. 

AGREEMENT:  oil  and  gas;  form,  605. 

ALLEN  CO.-  early  drilling  in,  7;  Nia- 
garan in,  73;  Ononrtnea  in,  77;  Black 
Shale  in,  80;  Waveriy  in.  *1 ;  described, 
116,  117;  well  logs,  179. 


ANALYSES:    distillation,    29    to   38. 
ANDERSON  CO.:  described,  118. 
ANTICLINE,   Cincinnati:  see  Arch. 
ARCH,    Cincinnati:    extent   of,   97. 
ASHLEY:   see   pools. 
ASSIGNMENTS:  denned.  614. 
ATTRACTION,     CAPILLARY:    cause    of 
migration  of  oil  and  gas  -19,  50. 


BAILER:   defined,    613. 
BALLARD   CO.:   described,  118. 
BARREN  CO.:   early  drilling  in,  7;   Cin- 

cinnatian    in,    7;    Trenton    sands    in,    69; 

Niagaran  in,    73;  Waveriy  sands   in,  83; 

described,    118,    119;   well   logs,    191. 
BARREN  CO.    "DEEP  SAND":  in  table, 

69. 

BATH   CO.:    Ragland   Pool,   9. 
BATH  CO.:  Niagaran  in,  73;  Waveriy  in, 

82;    Big    Lime    in,    84;    described   in,   119, 

120;   well  logs.  203. 
BE  ATT  Y,    MARTIN:   first    discovers     oil 

in  Kentucky,  3. 
BE4.VER  SANDS:  in  table,  S9;  in  Martin 

and  Floyd  Co.,   90;  in  Leslie,   Clay  and 

Knox.    91;    oil   from,    91. 
BEDFORD,    FORMATION:    pinches    out, 

BEEKMANTOWN,  FORMATION:  cor- 
relatives in  Kentucky,  65. 

BELL  CO.:   described.  121;  well  logs,  216. 

BEREA,  "GRIT,"  SAND  OR  FORMA- 
TION: in  Lawrence.  10;  pinches  out, 
78;  in  table,  82;  in  Eastern  Kentucky, 

BERTHELOT,  FRENCH  CHEMIST:  in- 
organic theory  of  oil  and  gas,  45. 

BIG  INJUN  SAND:  in  table,  82;  in  south- 
eastern Kentucky  coal,  83. 

"BIG  LIME":  see  St.  Genevieve-St. 
T.ouis  Limestone. 

BIG   SINKING:    see  Pools. 

BLACK  SHALE.  FORMATION:  not 
source  of  oil  and  gas  in  Onondaga,  55; 


relation  to  Onondaga^  75;  of  Upper  De- 
von'an  time,  78;  equivalents,  Ohio, 
Tennessee  and  New  York,  78;  in  table, 
79;  described,  79,  80;  oil  and  gas  produc- 
er, 80;  not  indigenous  source  of  oil  and 
gas,  80,  81;  source  of  petroleum  by  dis- 
tillation, 81. 

BOONE  CO.:  described,  121. 

BOURBON  CO.:  described,  121. 

BOYD  CO.:  Waveriy  sands  in,  83;  Big 
Lime  in,  84;  depth  to  Big  Lime,  85; 
thickness  of  Pottsville,  90;  described, 
121:  well  logs.  217. 

BOYLE  CO.:  described.  122:  well  logs,  223. 

BRACKEN  CO.:   described,    122. 

BRASSFIELD  FORMATION:  see  Clin- 
ton. 

BREATHITT  CO.:  natural  gas  in,  42; 
Beaver,  Horton,  Pike  Sands  in,  91;  de- 
scribed, 122,  123;  well  logs,  223. 

BRECKINRTDGE  CO.:  early  gas  pro- 
ducer, 8;  Bier  Lime  in,  85;  described,  124; 
well  logs.  232. 

BROUGHT  IN:  defined,  620. 

BUCK  VON,  GERMAN  CHEMIST:  or- 
tranic  theory  of,  46. 

RUCK  CREEK:   see  Pools. 

BULLTTT  CO.:  Waveriy  in,  81;  describ- 
ed, 124. 

BURKESVILLE,  WELL:  discovered,  5: 
in  Trenton  Sands,  68;  from  deepest 
Kentucky  o'l  sands,  97. 

BUTLER  CO.:  described,  125;  well  logs, 
235. 


CALCTFEROUS  SAND:  In  table,  65, 
place  of,  65;  underlies  Trenton,  66; 
oolitic  phase.  66;  source  of  salt  and  min- 
eral water.  66:  produces  oil  and  gas,  66 

CALDWELL   CO.:    described,     125;     well 

CALIFORNIA,  SOUTHERN:  occurrence 
of  oil  and  gas  in,  47. 

CALLOWAY  CO.:   described,  125. 

CAMPBELL  CO. :    described,  126. 

CAMPTON:  see  Pools. 

CANADIAN,  SERIES:  in  Ordivlcian  Sys- 
tem. 65;  in  table,  65. 

CANEY   SAND:   in  table,    69. 

OANNEL  CITY:    see  Pools. 

CANNELTON.  INDIANA:  well  log,  538. 

CARLISLE  CO.:  described,  126. 

CARROLL  CO.:  described,  126;  well  logs, 
237 

CARTER    CO.:    Waveriy   Sands     In,     8 
Big  Lime  in.  84;  depth  to  Big  Lime    85; 
thickness    of    Pottsvillfe,     90;    described, 
126;  well  logs,  238. 


CASEY  CO.:  Cincinnati  Arch  In,  97;  de- 
scribed, 127. 

CASING  OFF:   defined,  614. 

CENTRAL  CITY,   W.   VA.:  well  log,  543. 

CHAMPLATNIAN  SERIES:  in  table.  95 

CHATTANOOGA  SHALE:  equivalent  of 
Black  Shale.  78. 

CHESTER  SERIES:  descript'on  of,  86,  87; 
in  table,  86.  93. 

CHOLESTEROL:  in  animal  fats,  47;  In 
petroleum,  47. 

CHRISTIAN  CO.:     described,    127;     well 

CINCINNATI,    OHIO:   well   lop.  539. 

CINCINNATIAN  SERIES:  in  table,  69. 
95:  stages  of.  69;  described  69:  outcrop 
of,  7«:  thickness.  70;  oil  and  gas  hori- 
zon. 71:  sands  of.  71. 

CIVIL  WAR,  THE:  effect  of  on  oil  pro- 
duction, ':  boom  after,  7. 

CLARK   CO.:   described.   128. 

CLAY  CO.:  Beaver,  Horton,  Pike  Sands 
in,  91;  described,  128;  well  logs,  243. 


626 


INDEX 


CLINTON,    FORMATION:    described,    71;   I 
petroliferous,   72;  in  table,    72;  in  West- 
ern  Kentucky,   72. 

CLINTON  CO.:  early  drilling  in,  7;  Tren- 
ton Sand  in,  69;  Cincinnatian  in,  70,  71; 
Waverly  in,  81;  Big  Lime  in,  85;  de- 
scribed, 129;  well  logs,  247. 

COLORADO:  oil  shales  of,  47. 

CONTROL,  of  petroleum,  natural  gas 
and  salt  water  wells,  596. 

COOPER  SANDS:  in  table,  82;  in  Wayne, 
83. 

CORNIPEROUS  LIMESTONE:  see  On- 
ondaga. 


CORPORATIONS,      OIL:       capitalization 

CRETACEOUS       SYSTEM:     in     Jackson 

Purchase,   92. 

CREW,  DRILLING:  denned,  620. 
CRITTENDEN  CO. :   described,   129. 
CUMBERLAND   CO.:    oil   discovered,     5; 

Trenton    Sands   in,    69;    Cincinnatian   in, 

70;   wells   in,  96,    97;   described,    129;   well 

logs,    247. 
CUMBERLAND  "SHALLOW"  SAND:  in 

table,    69. 
CUYAHOGA,      FORMATION:       part     of 

Waverly,   82;  in  table,  82. 


DAVIESS  CO.:   described,    130;  well  logs, 

258. 

DEED,  OIL  AND  GAS:   form,   603. 
DENSITY,  BAUME:  of  crude  petroleum, 

28. 

DERRICK:   standard,   denned,    612. 
DEVONIAN,   SYSTEM:  source  of  oil  and 


gas,   47;    described,   74;    Black   Shale   of, 

55;    factors    of,    55;    Upper    in    table,    94; 

Middle  in  table,   75,  94. 
DOME:    Lexington,    97;    Nashville,  97. 
DULIN,    CHAS.:    drills     well     in     Estill, 

1916,    1. 
DUSTER:  defined,  618. 


EDMONSON  CO.:  described,  130,  131; 
well  logs,  261. 

ELLIOTT  CO. :  natural  gas  in,  42;  Wav- 
erly Sands  in,  83;  described,  131;  well 
logs.  261. 

EPPERSON  SAND:  in  table  89,    93. 


ESTILL  CO.:  discovery  of  oil  in,  10; 
Niagaran  in,  73;  Onondaga  in,  75;  Big 
Lime  in,  84;  thickness  of  Pottsville  in, 
90;  described,  132:  well  logs,  262. 

EVALUATION,  QUANTATIVE:  of  ten 
structures,  43. 


FARM.    TANK:  denned,   618. 

FAULT.   PINE   MT.:   result  of,    100. 

FAYETTE   CO.:   described,  133. 

FIELDS.  GAS:  see  Pools. 

FLEMING  CO.:  Niagaran  in,  73;  Waver- 
ly in,  82:  described,  133. 

FLOYD  CO.:  first  well,  7;  natural  gas  in, 
42;  evaluation,  43;  Onondaga  In,  77; 
Black  Shale  in,  80;  WaverTy  Sands  in, 
83;  Big  Lime  in,  84;  depth  of  Big  Lime, 


85;  gas  from  Big  Lime,  85,  86;  Chester 
in,  87;  the  thickness  of  Pottsville,  90: 
Beaver,  Horton.  Pike  Sands  in,  90;  de- 
scribed. 135;  well  logs,  274. 

FORT  CASSION:  correlation  in  Ken- 
tucky. 65. 

FRANKFORT,  KY. :  unsuccessful  wella 
at,  66. 

FRANKLIN  CO.:  described,  135. 

FULTON  CO.:  described,  135. 


GALLATIN  CO.:   described,    137. 

GARRARD  CO.:  described,  137. 

GAS,   CASING  HEAD:   defined,    620. 

GAS,  NATURAL:  production,  38;  com- 
pressor at  Kermit,  W.  Va.,  38;  analysis, 
41;  production  1889  to  1919,  40,  41. 

GASSER:   defined,  618. 

GENESEE,  SERIES:  equivalent  of  Black 
Shale,  78:  in  table,  94. 

GEOLOGIST.  OIL  AND  GAS:  value  to 
clients,  59. 

GORMLEY,  LOUIS  H.:  discovers  oil  in 
Floy-:)  Co..  7. 

GRANT   CO.:   described,    137. 


GRAVES  CO.'  described,  137. 

GRAVITY,  SPECIFIC:  cause  of  itera- 
tion of  oil  and  gas,  49,  51. 

GRAYSON  CO.:  described,  137,  138;  well 
logs.  324. 

GREEN  CO.:  described,  138,  139;  well 
logs,  335. 

GREENUP  CO.:  Waverly  in,  82;  Waver- 
ly Sands  in,  83;  Big  Lime  in,  84;  thick- 
ness of  Pottsville,  90;  described,  139; 
well  logs.  337. 

GULF  COSTAL  PLAIN:  occurrence  of  oil 
and  gas  there,  46. 

GUSHER:   defined,    620. 


HAMILTON  FORMATION:  part  of  Mid- 
dle Devonian,  74;  in  table,  75;  near 
Louisville,  77;  in  table,  94. 

HANCOCK  CO.:  Chester  in,  87;  describ- 
ed, 1S9;  well  logs,  339. 

HARDIN  CO.:  Calciferous  in,  66;  de- 
scribed, 140. 

HARLAN  CO.:   described,   140. 

HARRISON  CO.:  described,  140;  well 
logs,  340. 

HART  CO.:  Big  Lime  in,  85;  described, 
140;  well  logs,  340. 

HENDERSON  CO.:  described,   141. 


HENRY  CO.:  described,  141. 

HICKMAN   CO.:    described,   141. 

HIGH  BRIDGE,  FORMATION:  in  table, 

67;    exposed    in    Woodford    and    Mercer, 

68;  relation  to  calciferous,  68. 
HOPKINS  CO.:  described,  141;  well  logs, 

343. 
HORTON,   SAND:  in  table,   S9;  in  Martin 

and  Floyd,  90;  in  Leslie,  Clay  and  Knox, 

91;  oil  from,   91. 
HYDROCARBONS:    inorganic    origin,   45; 

organic  origin,   46;  undistilled  in  shales, 

47. 


CUyen 
IRONTON, 
IRVIN 


INDEX 

I 


Lime- 


627 


CREEK-WARF1ELD 
t  im         FOLD:  In    Eastern    Ken- 

IRVINE,  POOL:  see  Pools. 


of  pottsville 


sediments  '"• 

JEFFERSON  CO.:  described    14"> 
JESSAMINE    CO.:   deep   drilling   in.     65- 


JOHNSON   CO.:    natural   gas   In.   39,   40. 

41:    evaluation     43;     Onondaga     in.      77; 

Waverly  Sands  in,   83;  Big  Lime  in,  84; 

gas  from  Big  Lime.   86;  Chester  In.   87; 

Pottsville   in.    W;    thickness     of     Pottr- 

ville,  90;  described.  144;  well  logs.  344. 
JONES.  SAND:  in  table.  89. 


. 

KENOVA,   W    VA  •  well  loe    540 
KENTON  CO. :   descried.  145'.        ' 
KENTUCKY   RIVER   FAULT:    In     Cen- 
tral  Kentucky,    102 
KINDERHOOK,    FORMATION:    part   of 

M  averlj-.   82;  in  table.  82. 
KNOTT  CO.:  Natural  gas  in.   42;  evalua- 
tion, 43;    gas   from    Big   Lime,     85,     86; 


Beaver,   Horton,   Pike     Sands,     91;     de- 
scribed,   145;    well    logs,   355. 
KNOX  CO.:  oil  discovered,  7;  natural  gas 

in,  42:   Chester  in,    87;    Beaver.    Horton. 

Pike  Sands,    91;  described,    145.  146;  well 

logs,  362. 
KNOX  DOLOMITE.  SAND:  in  table.  «7; 

thickness  of,  6S;   extent   of.  68;   "Deep1* 

sand  of  Wayne,  68. 


LAGRANGE:  gas  wells  at,  71. 

LARUE    CO.:    described.    147;    well   logs, 

LAUREL  CO.:  described,   147;  well  logs. 

LAUREL,  LIMESTONE:     part    of    Nia- 

garan,   73;  thickness  of,  73 
LAWRENCE   CO.:   oil   discovered   in,  10; 

natural  gas  in,  39,  40,  42;   Onondaga  in. 

77;    Waverly    in,    83;    Big    Lime    in,    84; 

depth    to    Big    Lime,     85;    thickness    of 

Pottsville,  90;  described,  149;  well  logs, 

LEASES,  OIL  AND  GAS:  manner  of 
writing,  59;  prices  for,  14,  15;  form.  599; 
assignment  from,  609;  proven,  defined, 

LEE  CO.:  Niagaran  in,  73;  described,  149; 

well  logs,   414. 
LEE,   FORMATIONS:  part  of  Pottsville. 

LENSES,   SAND:    origin  of,   55. 
LESLIE     CO.:     Beaver,     Horfon,      Pike 
Sands  in,   91;  described,  150. 


|     LETCHER   CO.:   described.   151. 

LEWIS  CO.:  Niagaran  in,  73:  Onondaga 
in,  75;  Waverly  Sands  in,  83;  dcsi  ril...! 
in,  151;  well  logs,  420. 

LEXINGTON,  DOME:  part  of  Cincin- 
nati Arch,  97. 

LEXINGTON,  LIMESTONE:  see  Tren- 
ton. 

LEXINGTON,  SAND:  in  table.  67. 

LIASSIC.  SHALES:  of  Wurtemburg.  46. 

LINCOLN  CO.:  described,  151;  well  logs. 
421. 

LIVINGSTON  CO.:  described,  152. 

LOGAN  CO.:  CIncinnatlan  In,  71;  describ- 
ed. 152,  153;  well  logs,  422. 

LOGAN,  FORMATION:  part  of  Waver- 
ly. 82;  in  table,  82. 

LOUISVILLE.  KY.:  unsuccessful  wells 
at.  66;  Onondaga  at,  77. 

LOUISVILLE  LIMESTONE:  part  of  Nia- 
garan, 73;  thickness  of.  73. 

LYON  CO.:   described,    154. 


MADISON  CO.:  Clinton  formation  in. 
71;  Niagaran  in,  73;  described,  154. 

MAGOFFIN  CO.:  natural  gas  in,  40,  42; 
evaluation,  43;  Onondaga  in,  77;  Big 
Lime  in,  84;  depth  to  Big  Lime,  85;  gas 
from  Big  Lime,  85;  Pottsville  in.  89; 
depth  to  Pottsville,  92;  described,  154; 
well  logs,  423. 

MAN,    LEASE:  defined.  619. 

MANAGEMENT:   problems  of.  61. 

MARION  CO.:  described.  154,  155. 

MARSHALL  CO.:   described,  155. 

MARTIN  CO.:  early  gas  producer,  8;  nat- 
ural gas  in,  38;  Waverly  in,  83;  Big 
Lime  in,  84;  depth  to  Big  Lime,  85;  ga« 
from  Big  Lime,  85,  86;  Chester  in,  87; 
Pottsville  in,  89;  thickness  of  Potts- 
ville,  90;  Beaver.  Horton,  Pike  Sands, 
90;  described,  155;  well  logs,  431. 


MASON  CO.:  described.   156. 

MAUCII  CHUNK.    GROUP:  see  Chester 

MAUCH  CHUNK:  channel  deposits     In, 

McCRACKEV  CO.:  described.  156. 
McCreary   Co.:   oil   flrnt   found   there.    4: 
Trenton   in.  68.  69;  described.    156;   well 

MCLE'AN"CO.:  described.  166;   well  los», 

MAXON  (MAXTON)  SAND:  In  table  88; 
oil  and  gas  from.  87;  thickness  of,  88. 

.MKM'K  CO.:  early  gas  producer.  8; 
Black  Shale  In.  NO;  Big  Lime  In.  86;  de- 
scribed. 157:  well  logs.  437. 

MENDEIJIEFF.  RUSSIAN  CHEMIST: 
inorganic  theory  of.  45. 


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INDEX 


MENIFEE  CO.:  Ragland  Pool  discover- 
ed, 9;  gas  discovered,  9;  gas  in,  39,  40; 
Niagaran  in,  73;  Big  Lime  in,  84;  thick- 
ness of  Pottsville,  90;  described,  157; 
well  logs,  437. 

MENIFEE:    see   Pools. 

MERCER  CO.:  described,   158. 

METCALFE  CO.:  described,  158. 

MEXICO:  occurrence  of  oil  and  gas  in, 
46. 

MIGRATION:  of  oil  and  gas,   48,  49. 

MILLERS  CREEK:   see  Pools. 

MISSISSIPPI  AN  SYSTEM:  productive 
sands  of,  10;  source  of  oil  and  gas,  47; 
described,  81;  Lower  in  table,  82,  94; 
Upper  in  table,  93;  Middle  in  table,  93. 


MOHAWKIAN,  SERIES:  see  Champlain- 

MONEY,  BONUS:   denned,  614. 

MONROE  CO.:  Waverly  in,  81;  de- 
scribed, 159. 

MONTGOMERY  CO.:  Big  Lime  in,  84;  de- 
scribed, 160. 

MORGAN  CO.:  oil  discovered,  10;  natural 
gas  in,  42;  evaluation,  43;  Caney  Sand 
of,  71;  Big  Lime  in,  84;  depth  to  Big 
Lime,  85;  thickness  of  Pottsville,  90; 
described,  160;  well  logs,  450. 

MT.  PISGAH,  SAND:  in  table,  82;  in 
Wayne  Co..  S3. 

MUHLENBERG  CO*:  described,  161;  well 
logs,  466. 


NELSON  CO.:  described,  161. 

NIAGARAN  SERIES:  in  Allen  Co.,  12; 
described,  72;  in  table,  72,  95;  thickness 
of,  73;  important  for  oil  and  gas,  73. 


NICHOLAS    CO.:      described,     161;     well 

logs,    469. 
NICHOLASVILLE,   KY. :   well  at,   161. 


OIL:  crude  and  fuel  denned,  612;  demand 
for,  617;  origin  of,  622. 

OHIO  BLACK  SHALE:  equivalent  of 
Black  Shale,  78. 

OHIO:  Cincinnati  well  log,  537;  Ports- 
mouth well  log,  539;  Ironton  well  log, 
540. 

OHIO  Co.:  described,   162;  well  logs,    467. 

OLDHAM  CO.:  Cincinnatian  in,  71;  de- 
scribed, 162;  well  logs,  470. 

ONE1DA,  SCOTT  CO.,  TENN. :  well  log, 
544. 

ONONDAGA  LIMESTONE:  producer  in 
Ragland  Pool,  9;  in  Wolfe  Co.,  10;  in 
Allen  and  Warren,  12;  principal  oil 
horizon,  55;  classified,  74;  relation  to  Ni- 


agaran, 74;  in  table,  75,  94;  described, 
75;  porosity  of,  75;  pay  sands  in,  75;  ex- 
tent, 76,  77;  pools  in,  77. 

ORDIVICIAN  SYSTEM:  produces  from 
Trenton,  10;  source  of  oil  and  gas,  55; 
groups  of,  65;  Upper,  Lower,  Middle  in 
table,  95. 

ORIGIN,  OF  OIL  AND  GAS:  organic,  44, 
46;  inorganic,  44,  45. 

OSGOOD  "SHALE:  part  of  Niagaran,  73; 
thickness  of,  73. 

OTTER  SAND:  in  table,  82;  in  Wavne 
Co.,  83. 

OWEN  CO.:   described,    162. 

OWSLEY  CO.:  natural  gas  in,  42;  de- 
scribed, 163;  well  logs,  471. 


PAINT  CREEK  FAULT:  see  Irvine- 
Paint  Creek-Warfleld  Fault  and  Fold. 

PENDLETON    CO.:    described,    163. 

PENNSYLVANIAN  SYSTEM:  source  of 
oil  and  gas,  47;  described,  88;  in  table, 
89,  93. 

PERRY  CO.:  natural  gas  in,  42;  describ- 
ed, 163,  164;  well  logs,  473. 

PHYLOSTEROL:  in  vegetable  fats,  47; 
in  petroleum,  47. 

PIKE  CO.:  natural  gas  in,  42;  Big  Lime 
in,  84,  85;  depth  to  Big  Lime,  85;  gas 
from  Big  Lime,  85,  86;  Chester  in,  87; 
thickness  of  Pottsville,  90;  described, 
164,  165;  well  logs,  477. 

PIKE,  SAND:  in  table,  89,  93;  in  Martin 
and  Floyd,  90;  in  Leslie,  Clay  and  Knox, 
91;  oil  from,  91. 

PIPE  LINES:  Cumberland,  18,  19,  64; 
Indian  Refining  Co.,  19,  64;  American, 
19,  64;  Smiths  Grove,  19,  64;  Kentucky, 
38,  64;  Louisville  Gas  &  Electric,  64; 
Central  Kentucky,  38,  64;  Paint  Creek 
Extension,  39;  classes,  64. 

POOLS  AND  FIELDS,  OIL  AND  GAS: 
Gainesville,  3,  11,  106;  Scottsville,  3,  11, 
108;  Big  Sinking,  3,  77,  110;  Ashley,  3, 
11,  77,  111;  Bear  Creek,  7,  105;  Ragland, 
9,  77,  112;  Menifee,  77,  111;  Irvine,  10,  11, 
77,  110;  Campton,  10,  77,  111;  Cannel 


City,  10,  77,  111;  Ross  Creek,  77,  110; 
Station  Camp,  77,  110;  Millers  Creek,  77; 
Buck  Creek,  77,  109;  Cloverport,  104; 
Rock  Haven,  104;  Hartford,  104;  Caney- 
ville,  104;  Leitchfield,  105;  Diamond 
Springs,  105;  Jewell,  106;  Butlersville, 
106;  Halfway,  106;  Sunnybrook,  10;  Rode- 
mer  and  Petroleum,  107;  Adolphus,  107; 
Steffy,  108;  Oil  City,  108;  Hiseville,  108; 
Oskamp,  108;  Wayne  Co.  Associated, 
108,  109;  Frozen  Creek,  109;  Still  water, 
111;  Olympia,  112;  Fallsburg,  10,  112; 
Busseyville,  10,  112;  Georges  Creek,  112; 
Laurel  Creek,  113;  Paint  Creek,  113; 
Ivyton,  113;  Beaver  Creek,  113;  Inez, 
114;  Green  Hill,  114;  Moulder,  12,  114; 
McReynoids,  12. 

POROSITY:  influences  gravity,  47;  in- 
fluences capillary  attraction,  50;  in- 
fluences distribution,  51;  relation  to 
production,  97. 

PORTSMOUTH,  OHIO:  well  log,  539. 

POTTSVILLE  CONGLOMERATES:  chan- 
nel deposits  in,  55;  early  producer  of 
oil  and  gas,  88;  described,  89;  in  table, 
£9,  93;  thickness  of,  89,  90;  first  well 
from,  91;  character  of  oil  from,  92. 

POWELL  CO.:  Niagaran  in,  73;  Big 
Lime  in,  73;  described,  165,  166;  well 
logs,  485. 


PRESSURE:  influences  oil  and  gas  accu- 
mulation,  53,  54;  relation  to  production, 

PRICE   OF  OIL:   American  Oil,   6;   Ken- 
tucky crude,  6. 
PRODUCTION:  increase  In,  10;  depth  of. 


INDEX  629 

1-';   h.nv  handled,  1'.';  summary,  26;   value 
of.    27;   life  of,  62;  cause  i.f  decline,  ».J; 


defined,   Oil;  settled,   614;   flush,  615;   Ini- 
tial, 617. 

PULASKI   CO.:   Clnclnnatlan  In,   70;  de- 
scribed, 167;  well  logs,   493. 


QUATERNARY     SYSTEM:     in     Jackson     Purchase,  92. 


RAGLAND:    see   Pools. 

REFINERIES:    Standard    Oil,    18;    Etna, 

18;    Stoll,  18;    in   Warren   Co.,   18;    in   E. 

Ky.,   18;    at    Lawrenceville,    111.,    19. 
REGIONS:  geological  of  Ky.,  115;  oil  and 

gas   possibilities   of,    115,    116. 
RIG:   varieties,  6l';  defined,   613;  portable, 

613. 

ROBERTSON  CO.:   described,  167. 
ROCKCASTLE    CO.:    Big    Injun    in,    83; 

described,  167;  well  logs,   494. 


ROSS   CRKEK:   see   Pools. 

ROUGH    CREEK    FAULT    AND    FOLD: 

in  W.   Ky.,  102. 
RO\VAN   CO.:    Ragland    Pool    In,   9;    Big 

Injun    in,    84;    describ,  d.    His;    well   logs, 

KOY.M.TY.    OIL:    doflned.    616. 

RUSSELL  CO.:  Cincinnatlan  in,  70;  Cin- 
cinnati Arch  in,  97;  described,  16S;  well 
logs,  498. 


SALT  WATER:  in  Warren  Co.,  13. 

SANDS,  OIL  AND  GAS:  Mt.  Pisgah,  10, 
82,  94;  Beaver,  10,  82,  89,  93,  94;  Otter, 
10,  82,  94;  Cooper,  10,  82,  94;  Slickford, 

10,  82,   83,   94;     Lower     Sunny  brook,     69; 
Horton,    89,   93;    Pike,   89,   93:    Wages,   89, 
93;  Jones,  89,  f«;  Epperson,  89,  93;  Maxon, 
86,    93;   Bier   Lime,    84,    93;   Keener,  82,  94; 
Big  Ininn,  82,  94;  Squaw,  82,  83,  94;  Wier, 
82,  94;  Berea,  82,  94;  Stray,  82,  94;  Amber 

011,  82,    94;   Black  Shale,    79,    94;   Strays, 
79,  94;  Corniferous,  75,  94;   Irvine,  75,   94; 
Ragland,  75,  94;   Campton,  75,    94;   Niag- 
aran,    72,  95;   Clinton,    72,   95;   Caney,    69, 
95;   Upper   Sunnybrook,    69,     95;     Barren 
Co.    "Deep"   69,   95;    Cumberland    "Shal- 
low", 69,  95;  Upper  Trenton,  67,  95;  Lex- 
ington,   67,    95;    Lower    Trenton,    67,    95; 
High   Bridge,  67,    95;   Calciferous.  65,  95; 
Knox  Dolomite,  67,   95;   defined,  612. 

SCOTT  CO.:  described,  169. 
SEDIMENTS:  of  cretaceous  and  quater- 
nary, 92. 


SHELBY  CO.:  described.  169. 
SILURIAN    SYSTEM:    source   of  oil   and 

gas,  55;   described,  71;  in  table,  72. 
SIMPSON  CO.:  Onondaga  in,  71;  Waver- 

ly  in,  83;   described,    1«9. 
SPENCER  CO. :  described     170. 
STATION  CAMP:  see  Pools. 
STATION,   PUMPING:   defined,   619. 
ST.    GENEV1EYE-ST.    LOUIS     SEKIES: 

called    Big    Injun,    84:    correlations,    84; 

in  table,  84,  93;  described,  84:   thickness, 

84,    85;    depths    to,    85;    petroliferous,    10; 

produces  gas,    85. 
ST.   LOUIS  SERIES:  see  St.   Genevleve- 

St.    Louis. 
STORAGE:  necessity  of,  63;  size  of  tanks, 

64;   varieties.   64. 
STOKER   AND    WARREN   .CHEMISTS: 

work,   of,    46. 

"STRAY"  SANDS:  origin  of,  55. 
STRUCTURE:  relation  to  production,  '<7. 
SUNHURY   SHALE:    on     top     of     B'ark 

Shale,  78;  included  with  Black  Shale.  78. 


TANKS,  STORAGE:  defined,  CIS. 

TAYLOU  CO.:  Waverly  in,  81;  described, 
176;  well  logs,  500. 

TELL  CITY,  INDIANA:  well  log,   P38. 

TENNESSEE,  SCOTT  CO.,  ONE!  DA: 
well  log,  544. 

TEST,  DEEP:  defined,  621. 

THEORY,  ORGANIC  AND  INOR- 
GANIC: see  Origin. 

TODD    CO.:    described,    170,    171. 


TOOLS,   DRILLING:   defined,  613. 

TRENTON  GROUP:  part  of  Middle  Or- 
divlcian,  66;  oil  from  In  Ohio,  66;  over- 
lies calciferous,  66:  exposed  at  Ix>xlnK- 
ton,  Ky.,  66;  depth  to  at  Owenslniro. 
67;  In  Floyd.  67:  In  Ohio,  67:  In  table, 
67,  95;  oil  and  gna  horizon,  68;  sec  also 

TRIGG'CO.:   described.  171. 
TRIMBLE    CO.:    described.    171. 


UNION  CO.:  described,  171;  well  logs,  501.   |    UTAH:  oil  shales  of,  47. 


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WALDRON   SHALE:   part  of  Niagaran, 

73;    thickness  of,    73. 
WAGES:   see  Sand. 
WARFIELD    FAULT:    see     Irvine-Paint 

Creek- Warfleld  Fault  and  Fold. 


\\.\KHEN  CO.:  Clnclnnatlan  In.  71:  Nia- 
garan In,  73;  Onondaira  In,  77;  described, 
172,  173:  Well  logs.  604. 

WARRKN  AND  8TORKU,  CHEMISTS: 
work  of,  46. 


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INDEX 


WARSAW  FORMATION:  included  in  Big 
Lime,  85;  part  of  Waverly,  82;  in  table, 
82. 

WASHINGTON   CO.:    described,  173. 

WAVERLY  SERIES:  outcrop  of,  81;  de- 
scribed, 81,  82;  in  table,  82,  94;  extent 
of,  83. 

WAYNE  CO.:  early  production  in,  8; 
Trenton  Sand  in,  68,  69;  Cincinnatian 
in,  70,  71;  Upper  Sunnybrook  of,  71; 
Waverly  in,  83;  described,  173,  174;  well 
logs,  516. 

WEBSTER  CO.:  described,  175;  well  logs, 
519. 

WEST  VIRGINIA:  Kenova  well  log,  540; 
Williamson  well  log,  541;  Central  City 
well  log,  543. 

WIER:  see  Sand. 


WELL:  value  and  life  of,  615;  first  in  Ky.t 
616;  deepest,  616;  test,  617;  shooting  a, 
617;  dry,  618;  salt  water,  618;  flowing, 
620;  pump,  620;  offset,  621. 


WHITLEY  CO.:  Cincinnatian  in,  70;  Big 
Lime  in,  85;  depth  to  Big  Lime,  85; 
Chester  in,  87;  described,  175,  176;  well 


logs,    525. 

WILD-CATTING:  defined,  618. 

WILD-CATTER:   defined,  618. 

WILLIAMSON,  W.   VA.  :  well  log,  540. 

WOLFE  CO.:  Campton  Pool  discovered, 
10;  gas  in,  42;  Caney  Sand  of,  71;  Big 
Lime  in,  84;  depth  to  Big  Lime,  85; 
Pottsville  in,  89;  thickness  of  Potts- 
ville,  89;  described,  176,  177;  well  logs, 

WURTEMBURG:  Liassic  Shales  of,  46. 


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